PUBLIC

GENERAL STATUTES.

24 & 25° VICTORIE.

SERIES D.-RAILWAYS, SHIPPING, PORTS OF COMMERCE.

CREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND.

CAP. XLV. An Act to facilitate the Formation, Management, and Maintenance of Piers and Harbours in Great Britain and Ireland. (1st August, 1861.)

Persons wishing to construct any works, or to levy rates at any existing or new works involving an expenditure not exceeding 100,000l., may apply to Board of Trade to grant provisional order. The subscribers to the memorial must be the promoters, and they must deposit copies of the memorial and plans at the office of the clerk of the peace, there to remain open for public inspection. No provisional order to be made without the consent of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenue. The Board of Trade may then grant provisional orders, and afterwards cause a bill to be introduced into Parliament for the purpose of obtaining an Act for the confirmation of the order.

CAP. LXXX.-An Act to authorize Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund for carrying on Public Works and Fisheries for employment of the poor and for facilitating the Construction and Improvement of Harbours, and for other purposes. (6th August, 1861.)

The Harbour Commissioners of the United Kingdom may charge 360,000l. per annum upon the Consolidated Fund, by issuing not exceeding 90,0001. per quarter, for advances already made under previous Act, and 350,000l. per annum at 87,500l. per quarter for advances under the Harbours and Passing Tolls Act, 1861. The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to be the trustees of Public Works Loan Fund, and to cause a separate account to be continued at the Bank of England for the purpose.

GREAT BRITAIN.

CAP. XLVII.-An Act to facilitate the Construction and Improvement of Harbours by authorizing Loans to Harbour Authorities, to abolish Passing Tolls, and for other purposes. (6th August, 1861.)

The Public Works Loan Commissioners may make advances to harbour authorities for the purpose of constructing, improving, maintaining, or lighting up any public harbour, or for carrying into effect any other shipping purpose, for a period not exceeding fifty years from the 1st of January, 1862. All tolls and rates known by the name of passing tolls leviable in respect of any harbours on ships, which pass, but do not enter, such harbours, or on goods carried in any such ships, to cease to be levied. Indemnity to be paid

to creditors of debts charged on the passing tolls abolished. All rates, dues, duties leviable by charitable authorities to cease to be levied. So dues levied for shipping purposes on ships or goods which derive no benefit. All differential dues to cease and be abolished, and compensation for the same to cease on the 1st of January, 1872. Power was granted to town corporations to transfer shipping dues to harbour authorities. All taxes on ships or goods carried in ships leviable within the port of Dublin to cease. Provision was made for the maintenance of Ramsgate, Dover, Whitby, and Bridlington harbours.

CAP. LXIV.-An Act to continue certain Turnpike Acts in Great Britain. (1st August, 1861.)

CAP. LXX.-An Act for regulating the use of Locomotives on Turnpike and other roads, and the Tolls to be levied on such Locomotives, and on the Waggons and Carriages drawn or propelled by the same. (1st August, 1861.)

The tolls charged on locomotives to be in proportion to the weight as compared with other waggons, carts, &c. The use of locomotives destructive to highways or dangerous to the public may be prohibited by the Secretary of State.

ENGLAND.

CAP. XXVIII.—An Act to relieve certain Trusts on the Holyhead Road from Debts. (11th July, 1861.)

CAP. XLVI.-An Act to confirm certain provisional orders made under an Act of the fifteenth year of Her present Majesty to facilitate arrangements for the relief of Turnpike Trusts, and extend the provisions of the said Act. (1st August, 1861.)

CAP. L.-An Act for facilitating the Transfer of Mortgages and Bonds granted by Railway Companies in Scotland. (1st August, 1861.) Mortgages and bonds by railway companies, bearing a certain stamp duty, may be transferred by endorsement. The endorsement to exempt from stamp duty, and to have the effect of an assignment.

SCOTLAND.

CAP. LXIX.-An Act to provide for the formation of Tramways on Turnpike and Statute Labour roads in Scotland. (1st August, 1861.)

With a view to the formation of tramways on turnpike roads, special meeting of trustees may be called to consider the expediency of laying down tramways. The trustees may resort to their surveyors, or to an engineer to prepare plans of tramways and estimate of expense, and the expense to be defrayed out of the tolls and revenues of the road. with respect to the formation of the same on statute labour roads, the trustees may authorize the same to be made, and the expenses to be defrayed, out of the funds and revenues under their management.

And

CAP. CII.-An Act to amend the Tramways (Ireland) Act, 1860. (6th August, 1861.)

COPYHOLD COMMISSION.

Copy of the Nineteenth Report of the Copyhold Commissioners.

DURING the year 1860 there were 714 enfranchisements effected; viz., 74 clerical, 57 collegiate, and 583 lay. Since 1841 there were 697 clerical, 181 collegiate, and 1,799 lay. Total, 2,677. The consideration for the enfranchisements was in 1860, 107,4151. payment in full, 805l. 158. ld. rent-charges; and 32 perches of land; making the total consideration since 1841, 489,934. payment in full, 4,2011. 68. 4d. rent-charges, and 1,337 acres 2 roods and 26 perches of land.

Besides these enfranchisements the Commissioners had also received 330 applications, of which 68 were under the voluntary, and 262 under the compulsory powers of the Acts.

The Commissioners further reported, that in pursuance of the powers vested in them by "The Universities and College Estates Act, 1858," they have authorized, during the year 1860, 45 sales, 6 enfranchisements, 3 purchases, 3 exchanges, and one application for raising money by way of mortgage.

INCLOSURE COMMISSION.

Report of the Inclosure Commissioners for the year 1861.

THE number of applications of all kinds since the passing of the Acts has been 3,355. The number of cases since the last annual report in 1860 is 329; viz., 50 inclosures, 259 exchanges, 15 partitions, 2 conversions into regulated pasture, 1 in reference to local acts, and 2 applications of money under Lands Clauses Consolidation or Railway Acts. Of the 3,355 applications 2,485 were confirmed, 383 were otherwise disposed of, and 487 in progress. Acreage of inclosure confirmed was 347,943 acres, and the acreage of inclosure in progress is 194,347.

The Commissioners received the necessary consents to several inclosures. The average expense of the inclosure proceedings up to the time of the assents to the provisional orders, including any expense which may have attended these assents, and which leaves the case ready for Parliament to deal with, is 15l. 188. 7d.

TURNPIKE TRUSTS.

General Report, made by the Direction of the Secretary of State, under Act 3 & 4 Wm. IV. cap. 80.

THE financial condition of the trusts in England in 1858 was better than in former years. The receipts amounted to 1,083,410%., the expenditure

1,070,8387., and the bonded debt was 4,980,130l., with an unpaid interest of 783,1911. Since 1837 the bonded debt diminished from 7,011,989. to 490,130. The toll income has also decreased from 1,509,985l. in 1837 to 1,020,656% in 1858, and the expenditure from 1,742,2371. in 1837 to 1,070,8387. in 1858. In South Wales the receipt in 1858 amounted to 38,8147., against 35,743. in 1849, and the expenditure amounted to 38,466%, against 36,2981. in 1849. The Public Works Commissioners' debt amounted on the 1st January, 1859, to 146,5387., being 70,4817. less than in 1858.

LUNACY.

An Account of all Monies received and paid by the Secretary of the Commissioners in Lunacy, and of all Charges and Expenses incurred under or by virtue of the Act 8 & 9 Vic. cap. 100. s. 34, during the Year ending 31st July, 1861. (16.)

The receipts less balance on last amount of 2221. amounted to 14,638., and the payments, 14,384l. 148. 3d., after having paid into the Bank of England on account of the Paymaster-General 1,1287. 5s.; leaving a balance on hand of 2331. 138.

PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES.

24° VICTORIÆ.

SERIES H.-HEALTH, ENCLOSURES, &c.

ENGLAND.

CAP. XXIV.-An Act for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for the Hospital of Lady Katherine Leveson at Temple Balsall, in the county of Warwick. (28th June, 1861.)

CAP. XXXII.-An Act for confirming a Scheme of the Charity Commissioners for "the Hospital of the Blessed Trinity," at Guildford, in the county of Surrey, and its subsidiary endowments, with certain alterations. (11th July, 1861.)

CAP. LVII.-An Act to continue an Act of the 5th and 6th years of Her Majesty, relating to Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland. (1st August, 1861.)

CAP. LIX.-An Act to facilitate proceedings before Justices under the Acts relating to Vaccination. (1st August, 1861.)

The guardians of any union or parish may appoint some person to conduct proceedings for the purpose of enforcing Acts on Vaccination, and all expenses incurred to be payable out of the rates for the relief of the poor of the parish where the person for the time being dwells in respect of whose default or offence the same were instituted.

CAP. CXXXIII. An Act to amend the Law relating to the Drainage of Land for Agricultural purposes. (6th August, 1861.)

Commissions of sewers may be issued for new areas on the recommendation of inclosure commissions. And the recommendation of the Inclosure Commissioners to be obtained on petition of proprietors after investigation by an inspector. The powers of the Commissioners of Sewers to extend to the following acts:

To cleansing, repairing, or otherwise maintaining in a due state of efficiency any existing watercourse or outfall for water, or any existing wall or other defence against water, hereinafter referred to under the expression "maintenance of existing works." To deepening, widening, straightening, or otherwise improving any existing watercourse or outfall