House of Commons Journal Volume 85: 29 May 1830

Journal of the House of Commons: Volume 85, 1830. Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, [n.d.].

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Sabbati, 29 die Maii; Anno 11 Georgii IV ti Regis, 1830.

The House attended Divine Service.

MR. Speaker came to the House at half past ten of the clock, and at eleven of the clock, proceeded with the Members then present to Saint Margaret's Church; and, after Divine Service, returned to the House.

Chaplain thanked.

Resolved, Nemine Contradicente, That the Thanks of this House be given to the Reverend Francis Dawson, Chaplain to this House, for the Sermon by him preached this day, before this House, at Saint Margaret's Westminster; and that he be desired to print the same.

Adjournment.

Resolved, That this House will, at the rising of the House this day, adjourn till Thursday next.

List of Applications to Church Commissioners, presented. No. 476.

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented to the House, pursuant to their Address to His Majesty,-List of the number of Applications made to the Commissioners, under the Church Building Act, for building of any Chapels under the third section of the Act 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 72; and also, of the instances in which any such Applications have been acceded to.

Ordered, That the said Paper do lie upon the Table; and be printed.

Slave Bounties Bill, presented. No. 475.

Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer presented a Bill to reduce the Rate of Bounties payable upon the Seizure of Slaves: And the same was read the first time; and ordered to be read a second time upon Thursday next.

Ordered, That the Bill be printed.

Petition against Assimilation of Stamp Duties on Newspapers (Ireland.)

A Petition of Letter press Printers of the town of Carlow, was presented, and read; setting forth, That the Petitioners observe, with astonishment and apprehension, that an intention has been avowed by His Majesty's Government to assimilate the rates of Taxation levied in Ireland to those of Great Britain; and that it is proposed to carry this measure into effect in regard to all Stamp Duties in the course of the present Session of Parliament; and praying the House to give the most mature deliberation to the prayer of their Petition, and cause a full and minute inquiry to be made into all the circumstances connected therewith, which will enable them to pursue a course more judicious and beneficial to the community, and avert the manifold disadvantages which, by the passing of the measure, must necessarily be entailed on a class of men who, above all others, from the peculiar nature of their occupation, are the least capable of undertaking any other employment.

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the Table; and be printed.

Petition in favour of Jews Relief Bill.

A Petition of Protestant Dissenters assembling for the public worship of God in Rivington Chapel, parish of Bolton-le-Moors, was presented, and read; taking notice of the Bill for the Relief of His Majesty's Subjects professing the Jewish Religion; and praying, That the same may pass into a law.

Ordered, That the said Petition do lie upon the Table.

Dartmouth Bridge Bill, reported.

Sir Thomas Acland reported from the Committee on the re-committed Bill for building and establishing a Floating, Chain or other Bridge over the River Dart, from or near to Lower Sand Quay Point, in the County of Devon, unto a certain Place called Old Rock, in the said County, and for building Quays and Landing Places, and for making convenient Roads, Avenues and Approaches thereto, with Branches therefrom; That they had made several other Amendments thereunto; and the Amendments were read, and agreed to by the House.

Ordered, That the Bill, with the Amendments, be ingrossed.

Committee on Militia Estimates, appointed.

Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to prepare Estimates of the Charge of the Disembodied Militia of Great Britain and Ireland, for the year 1830:- And a Committee was appointed of Sir Henry Hardinge, Mr. Calcraft, Mr. Secretary Sir Robert Peel, Mr. William Peel, Mr. Thomas Wood, Mr. George Dawson, Lord Stanley, Mr. Frankland Lewis, Sir Edward Knatchbull, Mr. Maurice FitzGerald, Mr. Spring Rice, Mr. Cradock, and all Colonels of Militia: And they are to meet upon Thursday next, in the Speaker's Chamber; and have Power to send for persons papers and records.

Ordered, That Three be the Quorum of the Committee.

Royal Assent to Bills.

A Message by Mr. Pulman, Yeoman Usher of the Black Rod:

Mr. Speaker,

The Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty's Commission, for declaring His Royal Assent to several Acts agreed upon by both Houses, do desire the immediate attendance of this Honourable House in the House of Peers, to hear the Commission read.

Accordingly Mr. Speaker, with the House, went up to the House of Peers:-And being returned;

Mr. Speaker reported, That the House, at the desire of the Lords, authorized by virtue of His Majesty's Commission, had been at the House of Peers, where a Commission under the Great Seal was read, giving declaring; and notifying the Royal Assent to the several Public and Private Bills therein mentioned; and that the Lords thereby authorized, had declared the Royal Assent to the said Bills: Which Bills are as followeth;

An Act to enable His Majesty to appoint certain Persons to affix His Majesty's Royal Signature to Instruments requiring such Signature:

An Act to alter and amend an Act of the seventh and eighth years of His present Majesty, for consolidating and amending the Laws of Excise on Malt made in the United Kingdom, and for amending the Laws relating to Brewers in Ireland, and the Malt Allowance on Spirits in Scotland and Ireland:

An Act to repeal the Duties of Excise and Drawbacks on Leather, and the Laws relating thereto:

An Act to amend and consolidate the Laws relating to the Pay of the Royal Navy:

An Act to render valid Marriages solemnized in certain Churches and Chapels:

An Act to amend an Act for granting certain Powers and Authorities to a Company, to be incorporated by Charter, to be called "The Australian Agricultural Company, for the Cultivation and Improvement of Waste Lands in the Colony of New South Wales," and for other Purposes relating thereto:

An Act to extend the Powers of Grand Juries in the execution of an Act of the fifty-eighth year of his late Majesty's reign, for establishing Fever Hospitals in Ireland:

An Act for appropriating the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, in Dublin, to the purposes of a District Lunatic Asylum:

An Act to confirm certain Leases of Lands, for the purposes of carrying on the Linen Manufacture of Ireland:

An Act for endowing a Church in the Township of Everton, in the Parish of Walton-on-the-Hill, in the County Palatine of Lancaster:

An Act to raise a Fund for Provisions to Widows of the Members of the Faculty of Advocates of Scotland:

An Act for extending the Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction of the Magistrates and the Town or Burgh and Dean of Guild Courts of Glasgow, over the Lands of Blythswood and adjacent Lands, and for amending the Acts relating to the Police of the said City:

An Act for paving, cleansing, draining, lighting, watching, regulating and improving the Town of Ross, and for disposing of certain Common and Waste Lands and Rights of Common, within the Parish of Ross, in the County of Hereford:

An Act for paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, regulating and improving the Streets, Lanes and other Public Passages and Places within the Borough of Stafford, in the County of Stafford:

An Act for paving, lighting, cleansing and otherwise improving such parts of Great Dover Street, Trinity Street, Trinity Square, and the Highways, Roads, Streets, Markets and other public Passages and Places leading out thereof or abutting thereon or adjacent thereto, all within the Parishes of Saint Mary Newington and Saint Georgethe-Martyr Southwark, in the County of Surrey, as do not fall within the Powers and Provisions of any existing Acts of Parliament:

An Act for more effectually cleansing, paving, lighting, watching, regulating and improving the Township of Little Bolton, in the County Palatine of Lancaster:

An Act to amend several Acts for supplying the Town of Manchester with Gas, and for regulating and improving the same Town:

An Act for more effectually improving the Harbour of Southwold, in the County of Suffolk:

An Act for the Improvement and Preservation of the River Wear and Port and Haven of Sunderland, in the County Palatine of Durham:

An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Sankey Brook Navigation, in the County of Lancaster; and to make a Navigable Canal from the said Navigation at Fidler's Ferry, to communicate with the River Mersey at Widness Wharf, near Westbank, in the Township of Widness, in the said County:

An Act to enable the United Company of Proprietors of the Ellesmere and Chester Canal to make a Reservoir, and to establish Vessels for the conveyance of Goods from Ellesmere Port, across the River Mersey; and also, to amend and enlarge the Powers of the Act relating to the said Canal:

An Act for draining, flooding and improving certain low Lands and Grounds within the several Parishes of Othery, Middlezoy and Weston Zoyland, in the County of Somerset:

An Act for improving the Drainage of the Land lying in the North Level; part of the Great Level of the Fens called Bedford Level, and in Great Portsand in the Manor of Crowland, and for providing a Navigation between Clows Cross and the Nene Outfall Cut:

An Act for the more effectual Preservation and Increase of the Breed of Salmon; and for better regulating the Fisheries in the River Tweed, and the Rivers and Streams running into the same, and also within the Mouth or Entrance of the said River:

An Act for better supplying with Water the Town and Parish of Sheffield, in the County of York:

An Act for making and maintaining a Railway from the Borough of Wigan to the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, in the Borough of Newton, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and collateral Branches to communicate therewith:

An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Warrington and Newton Railway to extend the Line of the said Railway, and for repealing, explaining, altering, amending and enlarging some of the Powers and Provisions of the Act relating thereto:

An Act for making and maintaining a Railway or Tramroad from the River Soar, near the West Bridge in or near the Borough of Leicester to Swannington, in the County of Leicester, and four Branches therefrom:

An Act for making a Railway from the Town of Leeds to the River Ouse, within the Parish of Selby, in the West Riding of the County of York:

An Act to amend an Act for making a Railway from Dundee to Newtyle:

An Act for making a Railway from the Cowley Hill Colliery, in the Parish of Prescot to Runcorn Gap, in the same Parish (with several Branches therefrom), all in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for constructing a Wet Dock at the termination of the said Railway at Runcorn Gap aforesaid:

An Act for making and maintaining a Railway from the Lands of Polloc and Govan to the River Clyde, at the Harbour of Broomielaw, in the County of Lanark, with a Branch to communicate therefrom:

An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from Brighton to Shoreham, for building a Bridge over the River Adur, at New Shoreham, and for making a Road to Lancing, and a Branch Road therefrom, all in the County of Sussex:

An Act to make further Provision for defraying the Expenses of making the Approaches to London Bridge, and the removal of Fleet Market:

An Act for amending and extending the Provisions of an Act passed in the sixth year of the reign of His present Majesty, for the rebuilding of Kingston Bridge, and for improving and making suitable Approaches thereto:

An Act for building a Bridge over the River Trent, from Dunham, in the County of Nottingham, to the opposite Shore in the County of Lincoln:

An Act for building a Bridge over the River Wensum, in the Hamlet of Heigham, and the Parish of Saint Clement, in the County of the City of Norwich:

An Act for erecting and maintaining a Bridge over Stonehouse Mill Pool, at or near Stonehouse Mills, in the County of Devon:

An Act for building a Bridge over the River Avon, from Clifton, in the County of Gloucester, to the opposite side of the River in the County of Somerset, and for making convenient Roads and Approaches to communicate therewith:

An Act to incorporate certain Persons, to be called "The Hungerford Market Company," for the re-establishment of a Market for the Sale of Fish, Poultry and Meat, and other articles of general consumption and use, and for other purposes:

An Act for establishing a Market in the Parish of Saint Mary-le-Bone, in the County of Middlesex:

An Act for the Management and Direction of the Hospital founded by Joseph Barrington and his Sons, in the City of Limerick:

An Act for altering and amending an Act passed in the twelfth year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Second, for establishing and well-governing an Hospital or Infirmary in the City of Bath, and for constructing Baths therein, and supplying the same with Water from the Hot Baths in the said City:

An Act to enable the London Assurance Companies and their Successors to purchase Annuities upon or for Lives, and also to lend Money or Stock upon Mortgage for the purpose of Investment:

An Act for better assessing and collecting the Poor and other Rates in the Parish of Foleshill, in the County of the City of Coventry:

An Act for better assessing and recovering the Rates for the Relief of the Poor within the City of New Sarum, and enlarging the Powers of an Act passed in the tenth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled, "An Act for consolidating the Rates to be made for the Relief of the Poor of the respective Parishes of Saint Thomas, Saint Edmund and Saint Martin, in the City of New Sarum:"

An Act for further regulating the Statute Labour and repairing the Highways and Bridges in the County of Peebles:

An Act for making and maintaining Roads, Bridges and Ferries, and for converting, regulating and making effectual the Statute Labour in the County of Inverness:

An Act to commute for Lands and a Corn Rent, the ancient Compositions in lieu of Tithes, and Glebe Lands payable to the Rector of the Parish of Barnwell Saint Andrew, with Barnwell All Saints annexed, in the County of Northampton:

An Act for prolonging the Term of certain Letters Patent granted to James Hollingrake, for an improved Method of manufacturing Copper or other Metal Rollers, and of casting and forming Metallic Substances into various forms with improved closeness and soundness of Texture:

An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from Wendover to the Town of Buckingham, in the County of Buckingham:

An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Roads from Lewes, through Offham to Witch Cross, from the Cliffe near Lewes, through Uckfield to Witch Cross, and from the said Cliffe through Ringmer, Heathfield and Burwash to Hurst Green, all in the County of Sussex:

An Act for more effectually repairing and maintaining the Road between Hockliffe, in the County of Bedford, and Stony Stratford, in the County of Buckingham:

An Act for altering, improving, diverting and maintaining the Road from Rotherham to the Four-Lane Ends near Wortley, in the West Riding of the County of York:

An Act for more effectually repairing the Road from Blackburn to Walton Cop, within Walton-in-le-Dale, in the County of Lancaster:

An Act for amending an Act of the last Session, intituled, "An Act for more effectually repairing and improving several Roads which lead to and through the Town and Borough of Chard, in the County of Somerset, and for making and maintaining a new Road from Chard to Drempton, in the County of Dorset," and for making and maintaining other Roads communicating with the said Roads, in the Counties of Somerset, Devon and Dorset:

An Act for completing, improving and maintaining the Road from Wibsey Low Moor, near Bradford, through Brighouse, to Huddersfield, with certain Diversions therefrom, in the West Riding of the County of York:

An Act for repairing the Turnpike Road, from the top of Whitesheet Hill to the Wilton Turnpike Road, at or near Barford, in the County of Wilts:

An Act for repairing, altering and improving the Roads from Ashbourne to Sudbury, and from Sudbury to Yoxall Bridge, and from Hatton Moor to Tutbury, and from Uttoxeter to or near the Village of Draycott-in-the-Clay, and from Hadley Plain, on the late Forest or Chase of Needwood, to Callingwood Plain, on the same late Forest or Chase:

An Act for repairing the Road from Foston Bridge to the Division Stone on Witham Common, in the County of Lincoln:

An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from Temple Normanton to Buntingfield Nook, in the County of Derby, and the Road from Tupton Nether Green to Stubbing Edge Lane, and Knot Cross, in the said County:

An Act for improving and maintaining the Road from Werneth to Littleborough, and other Roads communicating therewith, in the County of Lancaster:

An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road leading from the Town of Stamford to the Division Stone in South Witham, in the County of Lincoln:

An Act for repairing the Road from Birmingham, through Warwick and Warmington, in the County of Warwick, to the utmost limits of the said County, on Edgehill:

An Act for more effectually repairing and improving certain Roads between the Towns of Derby, Mansfield and Nutthall, in the Counties of Derby and Nottingham:

An Act for making and maintaining a new Turnpike Road from the Town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the County of the said Town, to Hedon, in the County of York:

An Act for improving several Roads, and making certain new Roads, in the Counties of Devon and Somerset, leading to and from the Town of Tiverton, and for amending an Act of His present Majesty, for repairing several Roads leading from and through the Town of Wiveliscombe:

An Act for more effectually repairing and improving several Roads leading to and from or near to the Towns of Ashburton and Totnes, in the County of Devon:

An Act for amending and improving the Road from Tonbridge to Ightham, and other Roads communicating therewith, in the County of Kent:

An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from Cromford Bridge to the Turnpike Road at or near Langley Mill, in the County of Derby:

An Act for more effectually repairing and improving several Roads leading from the Market Cross, in the Town of Wareham, and in Purbeck, in the County of Dorset:

An Act for making, repairing, widening and keeping in repair certain Roads and Bridges in the County of Caithness, and for better regulating and rendering more effectual the Statute Labour in the said County, and Conversion Money in lieu thereof:

An Act for more effectually repairing and improving the Roads from Saltfleet to the Town of Horncastle, and other Roads therein mentioned, all in the County of Lincoln:

An Act for more effectually repairing the Roads from Hand Cross, through Cowfold, to Corner House, and from thence to the Turnpike Road from Horsham to Steyning, and from Corner House aforesaid to the Maypole in the Town of Henfield, and certain Branches therefrom, all in the County of Sussex:

An Act for improving and maintaining the Turnpike Roads from the Wirksworth Turnpike Road, in the Hamlet of Ideridgehay, to the Town of Duffield, and from the Market Place in Wirksworth to the Turnpike Road leading from Derby to Brassington, and from the said Market Place to the Turnpike Road leading from Wirksworth Moor to Matlock Bath, all in the County of Derby:

An Act for improving and maintaining the Road leading from Walsall to Muckley Corner, near Lichfield, and other Roads in the County of Stafford:

An Act for more effectually repairing several Roads leading from the Bounds of the County of Cork to the City of Waterford:

An Act for more effectually repairing and keeping in repair the Turnpike Roads, in the County of Peebles, for making and maintaining certain new Roads, and for rendering Turnpike certain Parish Roads in the said County:

An Act for more effectually repairing and keeping in repair the Road from Cramond Bridge to the Town of Queensferry, the Road leading westward therefrom, through Dalmeny to Echline, and the Road from the west end of the said Town of Queensferry, to the Town of Linlithgow, in the County of Linlithgow:

An Act for more effectually repairing the Road from Carlisle to Penrith, and from Penrith to Eamont Bridge, in the County of Cumberland:

An Act for improving and repairing the Road leading from Newcastle, in the County of Limerick, to the City of Limerick, and from thence to Charleville, in the County of Cork:

An Act for repairing and maintaining the Roads from the Town of Dundalk, in the County of Louth, to the Towns of Castle Blayney and Carrickmacross, in the County of Monaghan:

An Act for more effectually repairing the Road from the Town of Rickmersworth, in the County of Hertford, through the Village of Pinner, to or near the Swan Publichouse, at Sudbury Common, in the Turnpike Road leading from Harrow to London:

An Act to improve the Road through the Town of Bromley, in the County of Kent:

An Act for vesting certain parts of the real Estates devised by the Will of John Williams, Esquire, deceased, in the County of Stafford, in Trustees in trust to carry into execution a Contract entered into for sale thereof, and to apply the Money arising from such Sale in manner therein mentioned:

An Act to vest a part of the entailed Estate of Dunure, and others, in the County of Ayr, in Trustees in fee simple, for the purpose of disposing of, or applying the Lands so vested, or the Price thereof, or the Securities to be granted thereon, towards satisfying the Debts contracted for Money laid out in the improvement of the said entailed Estate:

An Act for enabling the Bishop of London to grant Building Leases of certain Estates belonging to the said See:

An Act for vesting the legal Estate in certain Estates late of Ann Budgen, formerly vested in Elizabeth Pedder, deceased, in Mortgage, in Edward Rawlings, the present Mortgagee and Trustee of the Equity of Redemption thereof:

An Act to enable the Trustees under the Marriage Settlement of Bourchier Marshall, Clerk, deceased, and Elizabeth his Wife, also deceased, to effect a Sale of the Advowson of the Church of Bow otherwise Nymet Tracey, in the County of Devon:

An Act for inclosing, and exonerating from Tithes, Lands in the Parish of Caxton, in the County of Cambridge:

An Act for dividing and allotting Lands within the Parishes of Weston Zoyland and Middlezoy, in the County of Somerset:

An Act for inclosing, and exonerating from Tithes, Lands in the Parish of Whaddon, including the Hamlet of Nash, in the County of Buckingham:

An Act for dividing, allotting and inclosing, and for exonerating from Tithes, Lands within the Township or Hamlet of Deddithorpe otherwise Derrythorpe, in the Parish of Althorpe, in the Isle of Axholme, in the County of Lincoln:

An Act for inclosing certain Lands in the Parish of Hagley, in the County of Worcester:

An Act for inclosing Lands in the Townships of Blacktoft, Gilberdike and Faxfleet, in the Parish or Parochial Chapelry of Blacktoft and in the Parishes of Eastrington and South Cave, in the East Riding of the County of York:

An Act for inclosing Lands in the Townships of Great Strickland and Thrimby, in the Parish of Morland, in the County of Westmorland:

An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Standon, in the County of Hertford:

An Act for inclosing Lands within the several Parishes of Kidwelly, Saint Mary in Kidwelly, Saint Ishmael and Pembrey, in the County of Carmarthen:

An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Monks Risborough, in the County of Buckingham:

An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Kingsbury Episcopi, in the County of Somerset:

An Act for inclosing Lands in the Parish of Little Addington, in the County of Northampton:

An Act for inclosing Lands within the Parish of Charminster, in the County of Dorset:

An Act to dissolve the Marriage of John Hadley D'Oyly, Esquire, with Charlotte, his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes:

An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Thomas Wallis, Esquire, with Charlotte Augusta Amelia, his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other purposes:

An Act for naturalizing Philip Augustus De Chapeaurouge.

And then the House adjourned till Thursday next.