lvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Ilkeston and Rothwell (Northampton). (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Gas).)

lvii. An Act to confirin a Provisional Order under the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 to increase the number of Magistrates in the Burgh of Leith. (Leith Burgh Order Confirmation.) lviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870 relating to Hoylake and West Kirby Gas and Water Manningtree and Mistley (Essex) Gas South Elmsall South Kirkby and North Elmsall Gas and Steyning and District Water. (Gas and Water Orders Confirmation.)

lix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Education Department under the Elementary Education Acts 1870 to 1899 to enable the School Boards for Brighton and Preston United District Liverpool Plymouth Salford and Willesden to put in force the Lands Clauses Acts. (Education Board Provisional Orders Confirmation (Brighton and Preston United District, &c.).)

lx. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act 1861 relating to Eastbourne Ilfracombe Lowestoft and Portessie. (Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 1).)

clxvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Barmouth Brecon Clacton Cleckheaton Hythe Liversedge Llandilo Ramsgate Romford and Sandgate. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 6).)

clxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Berwick-upon-Tweed Harrow-on-the-Hill Malton the extension of the area of supply of the Midland Electric Corporation for Power Distribution (Limited) Newhaven Seaford Thirsk Totnes Witney and Woking. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 7).)

clxviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 and the Electric Lighting (Scotland) Act 1890 relating to Broughty Ferry Dunblane and Wormit and Woodhaven. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 8).)

clxix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Barnard Castle Cheltenham (Extension) Freshwater and Totland District the extension of the area of supply under the Newcastle-uponTyne Electric Lighting Order 1893 to Gosforth Jarrow Llanrwst Pwllheli Royal Leamington Spa Twickenham and Wallington (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 9).) clxx. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Banbury Dartmouth Gosport and Alverstoke Heston and Isleworth Sevenoaks Sheerness Spennymoor Staines Egham and Chertsey Stamford Uxbridge and District and Wellingborough. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 12).) clxxi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870 relating to Abergele Gas Irthlingborough Gas Littlehampton Gas Lymington Gas Mablethorpe and Sutton Gas and Romford Gas. (Gas Orders Confirmation (No. 1).)

clxxii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870 relating to Wath-upon Dearne and District Gas. (Gas Order Confirmation (No. 3).)

clxxiii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Gas and Water Works Facilities Act 1870 relating to East Surrey Water Hayling Water Maidenhead Water Sevenoaks Water South-West Suburban Water and Tonbridge Water. (Water Orders Confirmation.)

clxxiv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Accrington Chipping Norton Gosport and Alverstoke Kingswinford (Rural) Newport Pagnell and Wirral (Rural). (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 1).) clxxv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Abergele and Pensarn Bradford-on-Avon Dorking (Rural) Haworth Henley (Rural) Hove Manchester and Wokingham (Rural). (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 5).)

clxxvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Atherton Barmouth Clitheroe Leicester Stafford and Teignmouth. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 6).)

clxxvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Cuckfield (Rural) Leigh Milford Haven and Wallasey. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 8).)

clxxviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Burton-upon-Trent Dorchester the Parts of Kesteven Warrington and Winchester. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 9).)

clxxix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Harrogate Heywood Ripon Rochdale and Tunbridge Wells. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 10).)

clxxx. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Barrow-upon-Soar (Rural) Bootle and Ongar (Rural) and the Doncaster and Mexborough and the Shepley and Shelley United Districts. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 11).)

clxxxi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Lancaster Ossett and Wakefield. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 12).)

clxxxii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Ashton-under-Lyne Bury Leyton Shipley and Sunderland. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 13).)

clxxxiii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to Gloucester Northampton and Torquay and to the Walton-upon-Trent Bridge in the Counties of Derby and Stafford. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 14).) clxxxiv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Hursley Union and the Parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Poor Law).)

clxxxv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Local Government Board relating to Bath. (Local Government Board's Provisional Order Confirmation (Housing of Working Classes).)

clxxxvi. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for improving certain Areas situated in the Parishes of St. James and St. John Clerkenwell and St. Andrew Holborn in the County of London. (London (Clerkenwell and Holborn) Provisional Order Confirmation.)

clxxxvii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for improving certain Areas situated in the Parishes of Poplar and Bromley-by-Bow in the County of London. (London (Poplar) Provisional Order Confirmation.)

clxxxviii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for improving certain Areas situated in the Parish of St. Luke in the County of London. (London (St. Luke) Provisional Order Confirmation.)

clxxxix. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for improving certain Areas situated in the Parish of St. George the Martyr Southwark in the County of London. (London (Southwark) Provisional Order Confirmation.)

cxc. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the Urban Districts of Clones Londonderry Monaghan Pembroke 'Rathmines and Rathgar and Wicklow and the Rural Districts of Dungarvan and Rathdrum. (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 3).)

cxci. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to the Urban District of Navan and the Towns of Boyle and Newbridge (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Housing of Working Classes).) cxcii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to Bray. (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Housing of Working Classes) (No. 2).)

cxciii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the General Pier and Harbour Act 1861 relating to Ayr Bridlington Felixstowe and Penryn. (Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation (No. 2).)

cxciv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders under the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 relating to Perth and Paisley. (Perth and Paisley Gas Orders Confirmation.)

cxcv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Accrington and Church Outfall Sewerage District and to Acton Chester (Rural) Reigate Weymouth (Rural) and Wigan (Rural). (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 7).)

cxcvi. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board relating to the Birmingham Tame and Rea Main Sewerage District and to Leeds and Wolverhampton. (Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 15).)

cxcvii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Board of Education under the Elementary Education Acts 1870 to 1899 to enable the School Board for London to put in force the Lands Clauses Acts. (Education Board Provisional Order Confirmation (London).) cxcviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act 1870 relating to Bredbury and Romiley Urban District Council Tramways Huddersfield Corporation Tramways Hurst Urban District Council Tramways Kearsley Urban District Council Tramways Prestwich Urban District Council Tramways Reddish Urban District Council Tramways and Wigan Corporation Tramways. (Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 1).)

cxcix. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act 1870 relating to Bedford Corporation Tramways Bootle Corporation Tramways Radcliffe Urban District Council Tramways St. Helens Corporation Tramways and Warwick Tramways. (Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 2).)

cc. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act 1870 relating to Batley Corporation Tramways Camborne and Redruth Tramway East Ham Urban District Council Tramways Hull Corporation Tramways Middleton Corporation Tramways Portobello and Musselburgh Tramways and Southampton Corporation Tramways. (Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 3).)

cci. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act 1870 relating to Ashton-under-Lyne Corporation Tramways Garston Tramway Gorton Urban District Council Tramways Plymouth Corporation Tramways Taunton Tramways and Warrington Corporation Tramways. (Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 4).) ccii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State for the Improvement of a certain Area situated in the Parish of St. Marylebone in the County of London." (London (St. Marylebone) Provisional Order Confirmation.) cciii. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order under the Burgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 relating to Paisley Waterworks. (Paisley Waterworks Provisional Order Confirmation.)

cciv. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by the Secretary for Scotland under Part I. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890 relating to the City and Royal Burgh of Edinburgh. (Edinburgh Improvement Scheme Provisional Order Confirmation.)

ccv. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland relating to Dublin and Belfast. (Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders Confirmation (No. 4).)

ccvi. An Act to enable Her Majesty's Postmaster-General to acquire Lands in London Bristol Ilford Sheffield and Southampton for the Public Service and for other purposes. (Post Office (Sites).)

ccvii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Battersea Limehouse Mile End Old Town and St. George-in-the-East. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 10).)

ccviii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders made by the Board of Trade under the Tramways Act 1870 relating to Bournemouth Corporation Tramways Houghton-le-Spring and District Tramways Liverpool Corporation Tramways Extensions Portsmouth Corporation Tramways Rothesay Tranways Weston-super-Mare Tramways and Whitefield Urban District Council Tramways. (Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 5).)

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TABLE III.

A TABLE

OF

THE TITLES OF THE LOCAL AND PRIVATE ACTS
PASSED DURING THE SESSION.

63 & 64 VICTORIA.-A.D. 1900.

LOCAL ACTS.

The Titles to which the Letter P. is prefixed are Public Acts of a Local Character.

ROYAL ASSENT, 9th April 1900.

P. i.AN Act to confirm a Provisional Order of the Secretary of State under the Military Lands

Act 1892. (Military Lands Provisional Order Confirmation.)

ii. An Act to increase the limit of the Note issue of the Colonial Bank and for other purposes. (Colonial Bank.)

ROYAL ASSENT, 25th May 1900.

iii. An Act to explain vary or alter the Deed of Settlement of the Universal Life Assurance Society and for other purposes. (Universal Life Assurance Society.)

iv. An Act for regulating the rating of Pontefract Park in the west riding of the County of York in respect of poor rates and for other purposes. (Pontefract Park (Poor Rate).)

v. An Act to amend the City and South London Railway Acts 1893 and 1898. (City and South London Railway.)

vi. An Act to enable the Cheshire Lines Committee to make a new railway to acquire additional lands to stop up certain streets and for other purposes. (Cheshire Lines.)

vii. An Act to confer further powers on the Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society and the Directors thereof to amend the Acts relating to the Society and for other purposes. (Scottish Widows' Fund and Life Assurance Society.)

viii. An Act to confer further powers upon the Redhill Gas Company and for other purposes. (Redhill Gas.)

ix. An Act for incorporating and conferring powers upon the Rugeley Gas Company and for other purposes.

(Rugeley Gas.)

X. An Act to extend the powers of the Charing Cross Euston and Hampstead Railway Company and for other purposes. (Charing Cross Euston and Hampstead Railway.)

xi. An Act for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted to Alexander Imschenetzky for an Invention for manufacture of fireproof and insulating compounds known as Uralite. (Uralite Patent.)

xii. An Act to confer further powers upon the Mayor Aldermen and Burgesses of the borough of Kingston-upon-Thames and for other purposes. (Kingston-upon-Thames Corporation.)

xiii. An Act to authorise the Newport (Monmouthshire) Gas Company to extend their limits for the supply of gas to consolidate and increase their capital and for other purposes. (Newport (Monmouthshire) Gas.)

ROYAL ASSENT, 25th May 1900-cont.

xiv. An Act to confer further powers on the Grantham Gas Company and for other purposes. (Grantham Gas.)

XV. An Act to authorise the Kingston-upon-Thames Gas Company to raise additional capital convert their existing capital acquire lands amend their existing Acts and for other purposes. (Kingston-upon-Thames Gas.)

xvi. An Act to confer further powers upon the Southampton Harbour Board and for other purposes. (Southampton Harbour.)

xvii. An Act to enable the Wetherby District Water Company to extend their limits of supply construct additional waterworks and for other purposes. (Wetherby District Water.) xviii. An Act for authorising the Army and Navy Investment Trust Company Limited to prepare and carry into effect a Scheme or Schemes of Arrangement with its stockholders or with the holders of either class of stock and to reduce its capital and for other purposes. (Army and Navy Investment Trust Company (Limited).)

xix. An Act to transfer all the property and liabilities of Mason University College in the city of Birmingham to the University of Birmingham and to repeal the Mason University College Act 1897 to confer certain powers on the said University and for other purposes. (Birmingham University.)

XX. An Act to alter the capital of the New Russia Company Limited and for other purposes. (New Russia Company.)

P. xxi. An Act to confirm a Provisional Order made by one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State under the Metropolitan Police Act 1886 and the Metropolitan Police Courts Act 1897 relating to lands in the parishes of St. Mary Stratford Bow East Molesey and Clerkenwell. (Metropolitan Police Provisional Order Confirmation.)

P. xxii. An Act to confirm certain Provisional Orders mide by the Board of Trade under the Electric Lighting Acts 1882 and 1888 relating to Brierley Hill Cleethorpes-with-Thrunscoe Elland Exmouth Newark Penzance Prestwich Redcar Sowerby Bridge and Whitefield. (Electric Lighting Orders Confirmation (No. 2).)

ROYAL ASSENT, 25th June 1900.

xxiii. An Act to confirm the issue by the Rhymney Iron Company Limited of certain shares credited as partly paid up. (Rhymney Iron Company.)

xxiv. An Act for rendering valid certain Letters Patent granted to Melvin Batchlor Church for the manufacture of an improved compound for coating and decorating walls and other surfaces and for the production of casts or mouldings and for analogous purposes. (Church's Patent.) XXV. An Act to enable the Urban District Council of Otley to construct additional waterworks and for other purposes. (Otley Urban District Council (Waterworks).)

xxvi. An Act to empower the Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway Company to stop up certain level crossings and substitute bridges to divert and alter certain roads to construct an aerial ropeway to acquire additional lands to consolidate their debenture stocks and amend their Act of 1888 as to the consolidation of preference stocks to subscribe to the Bantry Bay Steamship Company Limited to confer further powers upon the Company and for other purposes. (Cork Bandon and South Coast Railway.)

xxvii. An Act for supplying with water the borough of Higham Ferrers and certain parishes and places adjacent thereto in the county of Northampton. (Higham Ferrers Water.)

xxviii. An Act to convert the capital of the Cleethorpes Gas Company to raise additional capital to construct works and for other purposes. (Cleethorpes Gas.)

xxix. An Act to further amend the Acts relating to the harbour of Dundee and for other purposes. (Dundee Harbour (Amendment).)

XXX. An Act to confer further powers on the London Brighton and South Coast Railway Company and for other purposes. (London Brighton and South Coast Railway (Various Powers).)

xxxi. An Act for empowering the Governments Stock and other Securities Investment Company Limited to increase the dividend upon its Preferred Ordinary Stock and to amend the Governments Stock Investment Company Limited Act 1887. (Governments Stock and other Securities Investment Company Limited.)

xxxii. An Act for the granting of further powers to the Southport Waterworks Company. (Southport Water.)

xxxiii. An Act to extend the periods limited for the purchase of lands for and for the completion of the harbour works to enable the Commissioners to borrow further money and for other purposes. (Hastings Harbour.)

xxxiv. An Act to amend the Maidenhead Gas Act 1876 and to confer further powers upon the Maidenhead Gas Company. (Maidenhead Gas.)