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Page 22 - Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : — Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Right Honourable Henry John Viscount Palmerston, Baron Temple, a Peer of Ireland, a Member of her Britannic Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, a Member of Parliament, and her Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...
Page 42 - Second, for the relief and support of sick, maimed, and disabled seamen, and the widows and children of such as shall be killed, slain, or drowned in the merchant service...
Page 55 - An Act for the further Amendment of the Law and the better Advancement of Justice...
Page 3 - An Act for investing in Government Securities a Portion of the Cash lying, unemployed in the Bank of England belonging to Bankrupts Estates, and applying the Interest thereon in discharge of the Expenses of the Court of Bankruptcy, and for the Relief of the Suitors in the said Court; and for removing Doubts as to the Extent of the Powers of the Court of Review and of the Subdivision Courts.
Page 28 - In witness whereof, the respective plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at Washington, the fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-six.
Page 49 - An Act to alter, amend, and consolidate the laws for regulating the pensions, compensations, and allowances to be made to persons in respect of their having held civil offices in his majesty's service.
Page 20 - Her Majesty the Queen Regent of Spain, during the Minority of her Daughter Donna Isabella...
Page 2 - ... and experience, we are of opinion, that the present state of the supply of water to the metropolis is susceptible of, and requires, improvement ; that many of the complaints respecting the quality of the water are well founded; and that it ought to be derived from other sources than those now resorted to, and guarded by such restrictions as shall at all times ensure its cleanliness and purity.
Page 53 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Page 28 - ... under an Act passed in the first and second years of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled An Act for Amending and making more effectual the Laws concerning Turnpike- Roads in Scotland.

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