5 & 6 GUL. IV, Cap. LXII. An Act to repeal an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the more effectual Abolition of Oaths and Affirmations taken and made in various Departments of the State, and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof, and for the more entire Suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial Oaths and Affidavits, and to make other provisions for the Abolition of unnecessary Oaths. any Office 6. Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Oath of Allegiance Act contained shall extend or apply to the Oath of Allegiance on admisin any case in which the same now is or may be required sion to to be taken by any person who may be appointed to any still to be Office; but that such Oath of Allegiance shall continue to required in be required, and shall be administered and taken, as well and in the same manner as if this Act had not been passed. all cases. Oxford may sub 8. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Uni- Univerversities of Oxford and Cambridge, and for all other bodies sities of corporate and politic, and for all bodies now by law or statute, and Cambridge, or by any valid usage, authorized to administer or receive and other any Oath, solemn Affirmation, or Affidavit, to make statutes, Bodies, bye laws, or orders authorizing and directing the substitution stitute a of a Declaration in lieu of any Oath, solemn Affirmation, or DeclaraAffidavit now required to be taken or made: provided always, lieu of an that such statutes, bye laws, or orders be otherwise duly made and passed according to the charter, laws, or regulations of the particular University, other body corporate and politic, or other body so authorized as aforesaid. tion in Oath. Saving the rights of the Universities of Oxford 5 & 6 GUL. IV, Cap. LXIII. An Act to repeal an Act of the fourth and fifth year of His present Majesty relating to Weights and Measures, and to make other provisions instead thereof. 44. Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to prohibit, defeat, injure, or lessen the rights or privileges of either of the Universities and Cam- of Oxford or Cambridge; but that the custody of the assize, bridge. assay, and overlooking of Weights and Measures in the City of Oxford and its Suburbs and in the Town of Cambridge shall continue as heretofore and be in the Chancellor, ViceChancellor, or his Deputy, of the said Universities respectively; and that the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, or his Deputy, of each of the said Universities for the time being, and none other, shall have the power, and is or are hereby authorized, as occasion may require, to appoint in and for the said City and Suburbs and in and for the said Town respectively an Inspector or Inspectors of Weights and Measures, and shall have full power and authority to perform and execute all such matters and things as are required or are granted to Justices of the Peace of any county, city, town, or other jurisdiction in England and Wales under the provisions of this Act or by any or either of the said recited Acts; and every such Inspector is hereby authorized and empowered to put in force and execute all such powers and provisions as are by this Act, or by any or either of the said recited Acts, granted to or required of any Inspector or Inspectors of Weights and Measures appointed as aforesaid by the Justices of the Peace in Quarter Sessions assembled. 5 & 6 GUL. IV, Cap. LXV. An Act for preventing the Publication of Lectures without consent. [This Act provides that the authors of Lectures, or their assigns, shall have the sole right of publishing them; and that persons having leave to attend Lectures have not thereby leave to publish them.] extend to in any 5. Provided further, that nothing in this Act shall extend Not to .... to any Lecture or Lectures delivered in any University Lectures or public School or College, or on any public Foundation, delivered or by any individual in virtue of or according to any gift, University endowment, or foundation; and that the law relating thereto &c. shall remain the same as if this Act had not been passed. 5 & 6 GUL. IV, Cap. LXXVI. An Act to provide for the regulation of Municipal all laws, with this [Section I enacts], that so much of all laws, statutes, and Repeal of usages, and so much of all royal and other charters, grants, charters, and letters patent now in force relating to the several boroughs" and customs, innamed in the Schedules (A.) and (B.) to this Act annexed, consistent or to the inhabitants thereof, or to the several bodies or reputed bodies corporate named in the said Schedules or any of them, as are inconsistent with or contrary to the provisions of this Act, shall be and the same are hereby repealed and annulled. "In the construction of this Act the word 64 Borough" is to be construed to mean City &c. Cambridge and Oxford are two of the boroughs named in Schedule (A.) Act. Exclusive rights of [Section 14 enacts], that every person in any borough may trading keep any shop for the sale of all lawful wares and merabolished. chandizes by wholesale or retail, and use every lawful trade, All chartered exemptions from serving on Juries occupation, mystery, and handicraft, for hire, gain, sale, or otherwise, within any borough, [notwithstanding any custom or bye-law limiting rights of trading to persons free of the place or of certain guilds or companies.] [Section 123 enacts], that after the passing of this Act no person in any borough shall continue to be exempt from serving on juries in any of the King's Courts of Record at Westminster, . . . . or in any Court of Assize, Nisi Prius, abolished. Oyer and Terminer, Gaol Delivery, or Sessions of the Peace, or in any other of the King's Courts, by virtue of any writ, grant, charter, prescription, or otherwise. Saving of versities of Oxford and Cambridge. 137. And be it enacted, that nothing in this Act conthe rights of the Uni- tained shall be construed to alter or affect the rights or privileges, duties or liabilities, of the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge respectively, as by law possessed under the respective charters of the said Universities or otherwise, or to entitle any person to be enrolled a Citizen of the City of Oxford or Burgess of the Borough of Cambridge by reason of his occupation of any rooms, chambers, or premises in any of the Colleges or Halls of the Universities of Oxford or Cambridge or either of them, or to compel any resident Member of either of the said Universities to accept any office in or under the body corporate of the Mayor and Citizens of the City of Oxford or of the Mayor and Burgesses of the Borough of Cambridge, or to authorize the levy of any rate within the precincts of the said Universities, or of any of the Colleges or Halls of the same, which now by law cannot be levied therein. 5 & 6 GUL. IV, Cap. lxix. c. 19; An Act for continuing the Term and amending and enlarging the Powers of three Acts of His Majesty King George the Third, for amending certain 11 Geo. 3, Mileways leading to Oxford, and making Im-21 Geo. 3, provements in the University and City of Oxford, 2 Geo. 3, the Suburbs thereof, and adjoining Parish ofc. lxxii. Saint Clement, and for other purposes in the said Acts mentioned. [Sections 1-10, 32-36, 64-73, of this Act concern the Commissioners of Streets, and have either been repealed by 28 & 29 Vict. c. 108, or are now so near expiring that it does not seem worth while to print any of them here.] c. 47; present or erect and appro another. 11. And whereas the said City of Oxford and its neigh- Power to bourhood have of late years greatly increased, and are still enlarge the increasing in population and buildings, and there is reason to Market, apprehend that the Market established by virtue of the said recited Acts will soon become inadequate for the same; be it priate therefore enacted, that it shall be lawful for the Committee for the time being, appointed by the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford and the Mayor Bailiffs and Commonalty of the City of Oxford respectively, pursuant to the provisions of the said recited Act of the eleventh year of the reign of King George the Third, or any five or more of them, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, when and as they shall think fit, to extend and enlarge the said present Market Place, or any part or parts thereof, and, if they shall deem it expedient, to appropriate and set apart a sufficient space of ground, if the same can be purchased or obtained, in some convenient part of the said City of Oxford or the Suburbs thereof, as or for a second or additional Market for the sale of all or any of the marketable commodities now usually sold or exposed to sale in the present Market of the said City. [Sections 12-26 enable the Market Committee to purchase |