An Act to prevent plaintiffs in certain frivolous actions from
obtaining their full costs of suit. 4 & 5 Vict. c. 28, p. 17.
repeal of 3 & 4 Vict.c. 24, as to actions wherein verdicts had
been returned before it passed. Id. s. 1, p. 18.
plaintiffs' costs in case of a verdict for less than 40s.
An Act to provide for repairing, improving, and rebuilding
county bridges. 4 & 5 Vict. c. 49, p. 103.
repairing county
Id. s. 1, p. 103.
Id. s. 1, p. 104.
Justices at sessions may borrow money for
bridges, on the credit of the county rate.
Justices may agree with persons for loans.
copies of agreements to be kept by the clerk of the peace.
Id. s. 1, p. 104.
Justices may charge the county rate with interest on the
money borrowed, and such further sum as shall insure
the re-payment thereof in fourteen years.
books to be kept of receipts and payments.
notice to be given of borrowing money on
county rate.
powers of, 6 Geo. 4, c. 40, applied to this
Act may be altered this session. Id. s. 5,
DEATH.
Id. s. 2, p. 104.
Id. s. 2. p. 105.
mortgage of the
Id. s. 3, p. 105.
An Act for taking away the punishment of death in certain
cases, and substituting other punishments in lieu thereof.
4 & 5 Vict. c. 56, p. 109.
embezzlement by servant of bank of England, of any note,
bill, dividend, warrant, bond, deeds, &c. of the company.
Id. s. 1, p. 109.
embezzlement by servant of bank of England, of any note,
bill, dividend, warrant, &c. relating to Irish annuities,
transferred to bank of England. Id. s. 1,
p. 110.
embezzlement by any servant of bank of England, of any
note, bill, &c. relating to certain other annuities trans-
ferred to bank of England. Id. s. 1, p. 110.
embezzlement by any servant of south sea company, of notes,
bills, &c. of company.
Id. s. 1, p. 111.
stamp duties on deeds. Id. S. 1, P. 111.
stamp duties on gold and silver plate. Id. s. 1,
returning from transportation. Id. s. 1, p. 112.
certain offences of forgery and embezzlement not to be
punishable with death. Id. s. 1, p. 113.
punishment. Id. s. 1, p. 113.
riotous demolition of churches, houses, &c.
punishment. Id. s. 2. p. 113.
rape, &c. not to be punishable with death. Id. s. 3, p. 114.
DEATH-continued.
punishment. Id. s. 3, p. 114.
imprisonment may be with or without hard labour.
Act not to alter, 5 & 6 Wm. 4, c. 38, or 4 G. 4, c. 64.
offences not to be tried at sessions. Id. s. 6, p. 114.
commencement of Act.
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS.
An Act to explain and amend two several Acts relating to the
ecclesiastical commissioners for England.
4 & 5 Vict. c. 39, p. 82.
commissioners may adjourn meetings from day to day.
proviso as to confirming proceedings. Id. s. 1, p. 82.
cathedrals in which honorary canonries are founded.
honorary preferment may be held with two benefices, 3 & 4
Vict. c. 113, ss. 23 and 51, and shall not be subject to
lapse. Id. s. 3, p. 83.
first fruits, and tenths of vacated prebends, &c.
deans not to hold prebends. Id. s. 5, p. 84.
commissioners to have same claims as duly qualified pre-
provisions of 3 & 4 Vict. c. 113, to apply to
Id. s. 6, p. 84.
other non-resi-
Id. s. 7, p, 84.
St. Margaret's
application of certain monies to parishes of
and St. John's, Westminster. Id. s. 8, p. 84.
archdeaconries may be endowed with benefices.
Id. s. 9, p. 85.
the provision in 1 & 2 Vict. c. 106, as to archdeacons holding
two benefices, to extend to peculiars. Id. s. 10, p. 85.
endowment may be dis-annexed from one archdeaconry, and
annexed to another. Id. s. 11,
p. 86.
further provisions respecting Southwell. Id. s. 12, p. 86.
Durham University trusts. Id. s. 13, p. 87.
Saint David's, Llandaff and Brecon revenues, provisions
repealed. Id. s. 14, p. 88.
amendment relating to minor canons. Id. s. 15, p. 88.
majority of members to constitute a chapter. Id. s. 16, p. 89.
sinecure rectories in private patronage. Id. s. 17, p. 89.
disposal of residence houses. Id. s. 18, p. 89.
correction of error respecting endowments belonging to
Litchfield prebends. Id. s. 19, p. 90.
enlarged discretion as to mode of fixing incomes.
powers of exchange, &c. extended to all corporations sole.
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS-continued.
provisions of 3 & 4 Vict. c. 113, s. 73.
respecting exchange of advowsons to authorize exchange by
ecclesiastical corporations. Id. s. 22, p. 90.
exchange of advowsons may be made for the purposes of
unions. Id. s. 23, p. 91.
consent of patrons, how to be given. Id. s. 24, p. 91.
division of corporate revenues at Windsor and Lincoln.
Id. s. 25,
p. 92.
augmentations under 1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 45, may be made
by all corporations sole. Id. s. 26, p. 92.
and building land may be let or sold for the purpose.
commissioners may pay agents, &c. Id. s. 27, p. 93.
Act not to apply to Saint Asaph and Bangor, &c.
Id. s. 28, p. 93.
construction of the terms "lands," &c. Id. s. 29, p. 94.
provisions of Tithe Commutation Acts, extended to com-
missioners. Id. s. 29, p. 94.
powers of, 6 & 7 Wm. 4, c. 77, and 3 & 4 Vict. c. 113,
extended to this Act. Id. s. 30, p. 94.
Act may be amended this session.
An Act for the prevention of bribery at elections.
4 & 5 Vict. c. 57, p. 115.
evidence of bribery to be given on the whole matter, without
first proving agency. Id. s. 1, p. 115.
ENFRANCHISEMENT. See Tit. COPYHOLD.
An Act to alter and amend certain laws relating to the
collection and management of the duties of excise.
4 & 5 Vict. c. 20, p. 12.
seven clear days' notice to be given of the hearing of an
appeal. Id. s. 30, p. 12.
summonses may be served by officers of excise.
Id. s. 31, p. 12.
seizures under 157. value, unless claimed in one month to be
condemned. Id. s. 32, p. 13.
complaint of overcharge or overpayment of duty, not to be
made to the commissioners of excise, or Justices of the
Peace in cases where the question shall be the liability
of goods to duty, or the mode of charging the duty.
1d. s. 33, p.
FELONY.
An Act to remove doubts as to the liability of lords and peers
of parliament, to punishment in certain cases of felony.
4 & 5 Vict. c. 22,
part of recited Act repealed. Id. s. 1, p. 15.
peers convicted of felony, liable to same punishment as other
subjects. Id. s. 1, p. 15.
HIGHWAY RATES.
An Act to authorize for one year, and until the end of the
then next session of parliament, the application of a
portion of the highway rates to turnpike roads in certain
cases, 4 & 5 Vict. c. 59, p. 115.
Justices at special sessions for highways, on proof of the
deficiency of the funds, &c. of any turnpike trust, may
order payment to said trust, of a portion of the high-
way rate. Id. s. 1, p. 116.
parish surveyor neglecting to pay such portion of rate, it may
be levied by distress. Id. s. 2, p. 116.
Id. s. 3,
power of appeal to Justices at quarter sessions.
extent of Act. Id. s. 5, p. 117.
duration of Act. Id. s. 6, p. 117.
amendment of Act.
HIGHWAYS. See Tit. TURNPIKE ROADS.
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, until the twenty-fifth day of
March, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, and
for the relief of clerks to attornies and solicitors in
certain cases. 4 & 5 Vict. c. 11, p. 6.
persons who have omitted to qualify themselves as required
by the recited Acts, indemnified and allowed further
time. Id. s. 1, p. 8.
indemnity to those who have omitted to make and subscribe
the oath and declaration required by the Irish Act of
2 Anne. Id. s. 2, p. 9.
not to indemnify persons against whom final judgment has
been given. Id. s. 3, p. 9.
not to exempt Justices acting without legal qualification.
admissions to corporations may be stamped after the time
allowed. Id. s. 5,
not to restore persons to any office avoided by judgment.
general issue. Id. s. 7, p. 11.
An Act further to continue until the first day of April, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-two, An Act of the
LOAN SOCIETIES-continued.
third and fourth year of the reign of Her present
Majesty, intituled “An Act to amend the laws relating
to Loan Societies." 4 & 5 Vict. c. 55, p. 109.
Recited Act further continued until the first day of April,
one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
Id. s. 1, p. 109.
An Act to suspend until the thirty-first day of August, one
thousand eight hundred and forty-two, the making of
lists and ballots, and enrolments for the militia of the
United Kingdom. 4 & 5 Vict. c. 23, p. 15.
general and subdivision meetings relating to the militia
suspended. Id. s. 1, p. 15.
proceedings may be had during such suspension by order in
council. Id. s. 2, p. 15.
Act to extend to wardens of stannaries and to corps of
miners. Id. s.
3, p. 16.
An Act to defray the charge of the pay, clothing and con-
tingent and other expenses of the disembodied militia in
Great Britain and Ireland, and to grant allowances in
certain cases to subaltern officers, adjutants, paymasters,
quartermasters, surgeons, assistant surgeons, surgeons'
mates, and serjeant majors of the militia, until the first
day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
4 & 5 Vict. c. 61, p. 117.
secretary at war to issue the money required for the pay of
the regular militia. Id. s. 1, p. 118.
rates of pay. Id. s. 1, p. 118.
rates of pay when absent on furlough. Id. s. 1, p. 118.
clothing. Id. s. 1, p. 118.
contingent fund. Id. s. 1, p. 118.
adjutant, &c. to reside where the arms of the corps are kept.
Id. s. 3, p. 118.
adjutant to have charge of arms and clothing, and to issue
the money for contingent expences, on an order signed
by the colonel. Id. s. 3,
balance to form a stock purse. Id. s. 3, p. 119.
in absence of the adjutant the serjeants to be under the com-
mand of the serjeant major. Id. s. 4, p. 119.
militia when called out for training or exercise entitled to
pay. Id. s. 5, p. 119.
allowances to subalterns and surgeons' mates and assistant
surgeons. Id. s. 6, p. 119.
rank of certain officers. Id. s. 6, p. 120.
certain persons not entitled to allowances. Id. s. 7, p. 120.
a declaration to be taken to entitle officers, &c. to such
allowances. Id. s. 8, p. 120.
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