PREFACE.

THE establishment in the commencement of the present year of local legislatures, and the recent repeal and codification of much of the legislation of previous years, seemed to indicate a proper period for collecting into one edition so much of the Acts of the Imperial Legislative Council as was still in force; and such a collection seemed the more desirable, as all the existing editions, having issued either year by year or periodically, contained neither any single Index, convenient for reference and applicable at once to the whole of the Acts, nor any ready means of discovering what Acts were obsolete and what still in force, or how far former had been modified by subsequent legislation.

The object of the present compilation has been to supply these wants. It is hoped that the Index will be found full and complete without being overloaded with detail: and that the four Tables of Repealed, Expired, Modified and Extended Acts will enable those engaged in judicial business to ascertain, by immediate reference, what might otherwise not be discoverable without considerable occasional loss of time.

It may be necessary to mention that no Act has been omitted, or treated as repealed, unless it has been repealed in express terms. Inferential repeals have been treated as modifications, and the modifications have been pointed out in their proper places. Such repeals as are limited only by an exception relating to things already done or committed under the repealed Act, or to the repeal by it of previous Acts, have alone been treated as complete repeals.

For the purposes of occasional reference, an Appendix will be published containing the whole of the Repealed and Expired

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Acts separately, but it will not contain either Abstracts, Marginal Notes, Tables or Indices.

The Editor is indebted simultaneously to the Hon'ble L. S. Jackson and the late Mr. P. J. Paul, attorney-at-law, for the suggestion of a Classified as well as a Chronological Index, and hopes that he has succeeded in carrying out the suggestion in a manner which will add to the convenience and utility of his compilation.

The Editor has further to apologise for the delay which has occurred in the publication of the work. This has been due mainly to its having proved one-third more extensive than was originally anticipated. He hopes, however, that the delay has not led to any practical inconvenience.

ERRAT A.

VOL. I.

Page 38, line 7, for Repealed by Act XXXI. of 1850, read, Repealed by Act XXXII.

of 1850.

171, line 6, to Repealed by Act X. 1861, add, In so far as applicable to any suit or proceeding under Act VIII. 1859.

199, line 11, for Sections 2, 6, 8, 14, read, Sections 2-6 and 8-14.

222, line 20, to Repealed by Act XIX. 1861, add, so far as it authorises the issue of Promissory Notes payable on demand.

265, line 31, for Repealed by Act XXXV. 1847, read, Repealed by Act XXXIV.

1857.

» 383, line 4, to Repealed by Act X. 1861, add, so far as applicable to suits or proceedings under Act VIII. 1859.

,, 422, note, for XVII. 1862, Sec. 1, 2, read, XVII. 1861, Ss. 1, 2 and XXXI. 1861, Sec. 8 and XIX. 1862.

929, line 30, for Repealed by Act XVIII. 1854, S. 30, read, Repealed by Act XVIII. 1854, S. 39.

VOL. II.

Page 423, line 12, for XXXVII. 1859, read, XXVII. 1859.

674, note, for Act XXVII. of 1861, read, Act XXVIII. of 1861.

738, note, for the latter Act, read, Act XI. 1862.