ABBREVIATIONS. "Assistant Barrister" shall, with respect to matters or proceedings in the county of Dublin, be construed as meaning the chairman of Kilmainham, and with respect to matters or proceedings in the city of Dublin, be construed as meaning the Recorder of the city of Dublin. "Attorney General" shall include Solicitor General or other chief law officer of the Crown in any of Her Majesty's possessions abroad where there is no Attorney General. "British Possession" shall include colony, plantation, island, territory, or settlement belonging to Her Majesty. "Channel Islands" shall mean the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, and Sark. "Collector and Comptroller" generally, wherever any act, matter, or thing shall or may be required by this or any other Act of Parliament to be done by or with the collecter and comptroller of any port or place, the same may be done by or with the collector or comptroller or other principal acting officer of Customs at such port or place, and be as valid and effectual as if done by or with any collector and comptroller. 46 'Commissioners of the Treasury" shall mean the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. "Commissioners of Customs" shall mean the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Customs. "County" shall mean and include any city, county of a city, county of a town, borough or other magisterial jurisdiction, or any place or district enumerated in section Two hundred and seventy-four of this Act, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction. "Drawback" shall include bounty. "Her Majesty" shall mean Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors. "Justice" shall mean justice of the peace, and include deemster or any other magistrate. "Landing Waiter" shall include any officer duly authorised to superintend the landing and examination of goods on their importation. "Limits of East India Company's Charter" shall mean the Cape of Good Hope and all places and seas eastward thereof to the Straits of Magellan. Master" shall mean the person having or taking the charge or command of any ship. "Queen's Warehouse" shall mean any place provided by the Crown for lodging goods therein for security of the Customs. "Seaman" shall include mate, mariner, sailor, or landsman, being one of the crew of any ship. "Ship" shall mean ship or vessel of any description, unless used to distinguish a ship from a sloop or some other description of vessel.* "Warehouse" shall mean any place in which goods entered to be warehoused may be lodged, kept, and secured.-16 & 17 Vict., c. 107, § 357. The term "ship" or "vessel" is, in some cases, in this Journal, used synonymously.-Ed. b THE REVENUE. An Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years ended July 5, 1853, and July 5, 1854, showing the Increase or Decrease thereof. An account of the net public income of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in the year ended July 5, 1854, (after abating the expenditure thereout defrayed by the several revenue departments), and of the actual issues or payments within the same period, exclusive of the sums applied to the redemption of funded or paying off unfunded debt, and of the advances and repayments for local works, &c. : |