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Pagina 164 - An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent and other Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain and Ireland ; to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Paymasters, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Assistant Surgeons, Surgeons Mates, and Serjeant Majors of the Militia ; and to authorize the Employment of the Non-commissioned Officers.
Pagina 71 - This Church was erected in the year 1835, containing 323 sittings, and in consequence of a grant from the incorporated Society for promoting the enlargement, building and repairing of Churches and Chapels , 193 of that number are hereby declared to be free and unappropriated for ever.
Pagina 10 - 0, it is enacted that " in the year 1831, and afterwards, the justices of the peace in every county, riding, or division, for which Quarter -Sessions of the Peace by law ought to be held, shall hold their general...
Pagina 91 - Every person who shall use any threatening, abusive, or insulting words or behaviour with intent to provoke a breach of the peace, or whereby a breach of the peace may be occasioned : 14.
Pagina 95 - These will probably continue to be used in practice. For Wine and Spirits, there are the Anker, Runlet, Tierce, Hogshead, Puncheon, Pipe, Butt, and Tun ; but these may be considered rather as the names of the casks in which such commodities are imported, than as expressing any definite number of gallons. It is the practice to gauge all such vessels, and to charge them according to their actual content.
Pagina 213 - An act for the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts within the borough of Leicester, in the county of Leicester.
Pagina 154 - An Act to amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament for making temporary Provision for the Government of Lower Canada...
Pagina 141 - Monies thereby recovered or ordered to be paid, shall be left with the Senior Master of the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, who shall forthwith enter the same Particulars in a Book...
Pagina 95 - An inch is the smallest lineal measure to which a name is given, but subdivisions are used for many purposes. Among mechanics, the inch is commonly divided into eighths. By the officers of the revenue and by scientific persons it is divided into tenths, hundredths, &c. Formerly it was made to consist of 12 parts, called lines.
Pagina 153 - Any constable or peace officer may take into custody, without warrant, any person whom he shall find lying or loitering in any highway, yard, or other place, during the night, and whom he shall have good cause to suspect of having committed, or being about to commit, any felony against this Act, and shall take such person, as soon as reasonably may be, before a justice of the peace, to be dealt with according to law (i).

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