57. An Act to enable the Lord Bishop of Carlisle to grant a Lease, with Powers of Renewal, of Hereditaments in the Parish of Lambeth in the County of Surrey, and to authorize the granting of Sub-leases for building thereon, and for other Purposes. Page 604 58. An Act for enabling the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of Saint Mary Magdalene, within the Town and County of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, to erect a Chapel on Part of their Possessions in the said Town, and for regulating the Performance of Divine Service therein; and also for carrying into Effect an Exchange between the said Master and Brethren and Ralph Naters Esquire; and also for enabling the said Master and Brethren to grant Building, Repairing, and other Leases of their Estates. Ibid. 59. An Act for confirming certain Articles of Agreement between Samuel Pullin Esquire and James Rhodes Esquire, and for authorizing the granting of Building Leases of Freehold and Copyhold Ground in the Parish of Saint Mary Islington, pursuant to the said Articles, and for other Purposes. Ibid. 60. An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty, for dissolving a certain Partnership called "The Kent Life Assurance and Annuity Institution or Company," and for satisfying the Engagements entered into on behalf of the same Institution, and dividing the Surplus of the Capital belonging to the same Institution amongst the Holders of Shares of the same Capital. Ibid. 61. An Act to amend and enlarge the Powers of an Act of the Fifty seventh Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, for enabling the Trustees of the Charity Estates of William Hickey deceased, situate at Richmond in the County of Surrey, to grant Building and Repairing Leases thereof. PRIVATE ACTS, NOT PRINTED. Ibid. 62. AN Act to dissolve the Marriage of Andrew Jameson Esquire with Catherine his Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. 63. An Act for inclosing Lands within the Manor and Parish of Dufton in the County of Westmorland. [Allotment to the Rector in lieu of Agistment Tithe in the Lands to be enclosed, § 22. Act not to affect his Claim to other Tithes, § 23. Rector empowered to lease his Allotment, § 24. Rights of Lord of the Manor to Mines, &c. not to be prejudiced, § 46.] 64. An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Exhall in the County of the City of Coventry. [Vicar's Allotment to be fenced at the Expence of the other Proprietors, § 30. Vicar empowered to lease his Allotment, § 31.] 65. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Barron Grahame with Caroline Keissling his Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned. 66. An Act to declare void an alleged Marriage between Ellen Turner, an Infant, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield. 67. An Act for naturalizing Morris Sigismund Meyer. 68. An Act for naturalizing the Reverend Joseph Wolff. 69. An Act for naturalizing George Muirson Woolsey. 70. An Act for inclosing, allotting, dividing, and laying in severalty the Common Fields and Common Meadows of Peckham in the County of Surrey. [Act not to extend to Lands, &c. of the Grand Surrey Canal Company, $39; or to Shoulder of Mutton Piece, § 19; Peckham Rye, Goose Green, or Nun Green, § 40; or to affect the Rights of the Commissioners of Sewers of Surrey and Kent, $ 41.] 71. An Act for naturalizing Joseph Stansbury. 72. An Act for naturalizing Andrew Melly. THE STATUTES AT LARGE. Anno Regni GEORGII IV. Britanniarum Regis, A T the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the Fourteenth Day of November, Anno Domini 1826, in the Seventh Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Fourth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great 'Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith; being the First Session of the Eighth Parliament of the United Kingdom of "Great Britain and Ireland. CAP. I. An Act for applying a Sum of Money for the Service of the Womens the United Kingdom of Great Britain and E, Your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the • Ireland, in Parliament assembled, towards raising the necessary CA P. II. An Act for raising the Sum of Ten Millions, by Exchequer CA P. III. An Act to confirm an Order in Council for allowing the Importation of Foreign Oats, Oatmeal, Rye, Pease and Beans; to indemnify all Persons who have advised or acted in execution of the same; and to permit the Importation of such Articles until the Fifteenth Day of February One thousand eight hundred and twenty seven. [13th December 1826.] HEREAS on the First Day of September in this present Order in Coun WHERE on thousand eight hundred and twenty six, His cil of 1st Sept. Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, was pleased to 1826. 'make 3 G. 4. c. 60. s. 3. 55 G. 3. c. 26. 'make a certain Order in Council, whereby, after reciting that, by the Laws now in force for regulating the Importation of Corn, Oats and Oatmeal might be imported into the United Kingdom, and into the Isle of Man, for Home Consumption, ' under and subject to the Regulations of the several Statutes in that Case made and provided, whenever the Average Price of Oats (to be ascertained in the Manner therein prescribed) 'should be at or above the Price of Twenty seven Shillings the Quarter; and Pease might in like Manner be imported whenever the Price shall be at or above Fifty three Shillings the Quarter; and further reciting, that by a certain Act of Parliament made and passed in the Third Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled An Act to amend the Laws relating to the Importation of Corn, it is enacted, that whenever Foreign 'Corn, Meal or Flour, shall be admissible under the Provisions of an Act passed in the Fifty fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to amend the Law now in force for regulating the Importation of Corn, or ' under the Provisions of the said Act passed in the Third Year of His present Majesty, there should be levied and paid certain Duties, therein specified, upon all such Foreign Corn, Meal, or Flour, when admitted for Home Consumption; and further reciting, that by the Weekly Returns of Purchases and Sales of Corn made by the several Inspectors of Corn Returns in the Cities and Towns of England and Wales, to the Receiver of Corn Returns, it appeared that the Average Price of Oats, and also the Average Price of Pease, at the then present Time, ex'ceeded the before mentioned Prices of Twenty seven Shillings and Fifty three Shillings per Quarter; and further reciting, that 'from Information which had on that Day been laid before His Majesty, it appeared that the Price of Oats, as well as that of Pease, was still rising, and that the Crop of Oats, and also the Crops of Pease and Beans of the present Year, had failed to a considerable Extent, and that a Deficiency in the Crop of Potatoes was also apprehended in some Parts of the United Kingdom; and that if the Importation for Home Consumption ' of Oats and Oatmeal, and of Rye, Pease, and Beans, were not immediately permitted, there was great Cause to fear that much 'Distress might ensue to all Classes of His Majesty's Subjects; and further reciting, that under the Acts aforesaid no Foreign Grain of the above Description, whatever might be the respective Average Prices of the same, could be admitted to Entry for Home Consumption till after the Fifteenth Day of November in the present Year, when the next Quarterly Average, by which the Admission of such Grain is regulated, would be made up, according to the Provisions of the said Acts; His Majesty, with the Advice of His Privy Council, did order, and it was thereby accordingly ordered, that Foreign Oats and Oatmeal, Rye, Pease, and Beans, whether warehoused or otherwise, should and might, 'from the Date of the said Order in Council, be permitted to be entered in the Ports of the United Kingdom and of the Isle of Man for Home Consumption, provided the Parties making Entry of any such Foreign Oats, Oatmeal, Rye, Pease, or Beans, 'should give Bond, with sufficient Sureties, to the Satisfaction of • the cil valid. the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs, for the Payment ' of any Duties, not exceeding in Amount the Duties thereinafter ' mentioned, in case Parliament should authorize the Levy and Receipt thereof; that is to say, Oats, per Quarter, Two Shillings; Oatmeal, per Boll, Two Shillings and Two Pence; Rye, 'Pease and Beans, per Quarter, Three Shillings and Six Pence; and His Majesty, by and with the Advice aforesaid, did thereby 'further order, and it was accordingly ordered, that such Per'mission to enter Oats and Oatmeal, Rye, Pease, and Beans, for Home Consumption, on the Conditions aforesaid, should continue in force from the Date thereof until the Expiration of Forty Days, to be reckoned from the Day of the next Meeting of Parliament, unless the Parliament should previously to the Expiration of the said Forty Days make Provision to the contrary: And whereas it is expedient that all Persons advising or issuing the said Order in Council, and all Persons who have acted under or in obedience to the same, should be indemnified;' Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That the said Order in Council shall Order in Counbe and be deemed valid and of due Force in Law; and that all personal Actions and Suits, Indictments, Informations, and all All Actions Prosecutions and Proceedings whatsoever, which have been or against Persons shall be hereafter prosecuted or commenced against any Person advising, &c. or Persons, for having advised or issued or carried into Execution the same discharged. the said Order in Council, be, are and shall be discharged and made void by virtue of this Act; and that if any Action or Suit Persons proseshall be prosecuted or commenced against any Person or Persons, cuted may plead the General for or by reason of any Act, Matter, or Thing advised, commanded, appointed or done, or forborne to be done, under or in relation to the said Order in Council, he, she or they may plead the General Issue, and give this Act and the Special Matter in Evidence; and if the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs in any Action or Suit Double Costs. so to be prosecuted or commenced in England or Ireland shall become nonsuit, or forbear further Prosecution, or suffer Discontinuance, or if a Verdict shall pass against such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs, the Defendant or Defendants shall recover his, her, or their Double Costs, for which he, she or they shall have the like Remedy as in Cases where the Costs by Law are given to Defendants; and if any such Action or Suit as aforesaid shall be commenced or prosecuted in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, the Court before which such Action or Suit shall be commenced or prosecuted shall allow to the Defender the Benefit of the Discharge and Indemnity hereby provided, and shall further allow him his Double Costs of Suit in all such Cases as aforesaid. Issue. Defendants may apply to the Court to to stay Pro II. And be it also enacted, That if any Action or Suit hath been already commenced against any Person or Persons, for any such Act, Matter, or Thing so advised, commanded, appointed, or done, or forborne to be done, it shall and may be lawful for the Defendants or Defenders in such Actions or Suit respectively, in Actions. whatever Court in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland such Action or Suit shall have been commenced, to apply ceedings in |