A COLLECTION OF THE PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES PASSED IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, 1854. QUI DROIT LONDON: PRINTED BY GEORGE EDWARD EYRE AND WILLIAM SPOTTISWOODE, And published in Numbers, Price 2d. each, AT THE QUEEN'S PRINTING OFFICE, EAST HARDING STREET, NEAR FLEET STREET. A TABLE OF The PUBLIC GENERAL STATUTES passed in the SECOND Session of the SIXTEENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 17 & 18 VICTORIA. PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS. I. AN Act to explain and amend an Act of the last Session relating to the Duties of Assessed Taxes, and to authorize Justices of the Peace in Ireland to administer Oaths required in Matters relating to Income Tax. 3 II. An Act to apply the Sum of Eight Millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. 5 III. An Act for raising the Sum of One million seven hundred and fifty thousand Pounds by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and fiftyfour. 7 IV. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. 9 V. An Act to admit Foreign Ships to the Coasting Trade. 73 VI. An Act for the Regulation of Her Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on shore. 74 VII. An Act for extending the Time limited for putting into execution the Act of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Years of Her present Majesty, for the better Management and Control of Highways in South Wales. 130 VIII. An Act further to amend an Act relating to the Valuation of rateable Property in Ireland. a 3 131 IX. An |