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4. That the gases evolved by heat from coal 
and from oil, though extremely uncertain as 
to the proportions of their ingredients, consist 
essentially of carburetted hydrogen, with va¬ 
riable proportions of hydrogen and carbonic 
oxide; and that they owe, moreover, much of 
their illuminating power to an elastic fluid, 
which resembles olefiant gas in the property 
of b( iig speedily condensed by chlorine. 
5. That the proportion of oil gas and coal 
gas, which chlorine thus converts into a liquid 
[Nov. I, 
form, does not precisely agree with olefiant 
gas in its other properties; but requires, for 
the combustion of each volume, nearly two 
volumes of oxygen more than are sufficient 
for saturating one volume of olefiant gas, and 
affords one additional volume of carbonic 
acid. It is probably, therefore, either a mix¬ 
ture of olefiant gas with a heavier and more 
combustible gas or vapour, or a new gas sui 
generis, consisting of hydrogen and charcoal 
in proportions that remain to be determined. 
British Legislation. 
BRITISH LEGISLATION. 
ACTS PASSED in the FIRST YEAR of the REIGN of GEORGE THE FOURTH.or in 
the second session of the seventh parliament of the united kingdom. 
C AP. LI. To explain an Act made in 
the Fourteenth Year of His late 
Majesty King George the Third, for ex¬ 
plaining an Act made in the Twelfth 
Year of Queen Anne , intituled , An Act 
to reduce the Rate of Interest , without 
any Prejudice to Parliamentary Secu¬ 
rities. 
Securities made in Great Britain to be 
as valid as if made in the Country where 
the Property affected is situate. 
CAP. LII. To improve the Land Re¬ 
venues of the Crown , and of His Majesty's 
Duchy of Lancaster , and for making 
Provisions and Regulations for the bet¬ 
ter Management thereof . 
I. Commissioners of His Majesty’s 
Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, em¬ 
powered to grant Leases of Crown Lands 
within the Survey of the Exchequer, for 
the Terms and subject to the Restrictions 
directed by former Acts. 
IV. The Commissioners of Woods, &c. 
empowered to make Exchanges of Free¬ 
hold Estates for partial or chattel Interests 
of equal Value in other Estates, the Re¬ 
version whereof is or shall be in the 
Crown. 
IX. Lessees of the New Theatre in the 
Haymarket empowered to erect a Portico. 
X. Commissioners of His Majesty’s 
Woods, &c. empowered to authorize Les¬ 
sees to make Gateways into King Street 
and Vine Street. 
XI. Houses built in the New Street, in 
the Parish of St. James, Westminster, as are 
situated on the Site of the old Street, exone¬ 
rate from Land Tax. 
CAP. LIIJ. To regulate the Proceed¬ 
ings in the Civil Side of the Court of 
King's Bench , and also in the Court of 
Common Pleas , and in the Pleas or 
Common Law Side of the Court of Ex¬ 
chequer in Ireland. 
I. No Fees shall be taken by the Officers 
of the Courts, except Tipstaffs, &c. under 
Schedule, Penalty 5001. 
CAP. LTV. To regulate the Office of 
Clerk of Assize or Nisi Prius, or Judge's 
Registrar , in Ireland 
I. Clerks of Nisi Prius shall not take 
any Fees or Recompence for performing 
the Duties of their Office, except according 
to this Act. 
CAP. LV. To remove Doubts as to 
the Amount of Stamp Duties to be paid 
on Deeds and other Instruments, under 
the several Acts in Great Britain and 
Ireland respectively. 
III. Nothing in this Act to affect Duties 
on Bills of Exchange. 
CAP. LVI. To amend an Act , passed 
in the Twenty-second Year of His late 
Majesty, for the better Relief and Em¬ 
ployment of the Poor. 
I. Power given to Guardians to sell Poor 
Houses and Lands. 
II. A competent Part of the Money aris¬ 
ing from every such Sale shall be applied 
in defraying the Expences attending the 
Sale, and in or towards discharging any 
Incumbrances affecting the said Work- 
house, or other Houses, Tenements, and 
Buildings, Outhouses, Offices, Yards, Gar¬ 
dens, Orchards, Lands, and Grounds re¬ 
spectively, and any Debts which may have 
been contracted by the Guardians, or Visi¬ 
tor and Guardians of such Parish, Town¬ 
ship, or Place, or united Parishes, Town¬ 
ships, or Places respectively, by way of 
Charge on the Poors’ Rates or otherwise ; 
and the Residue of any such Money shall 
be paid by such Guardians, or Visitor and 
Guardians, to the Churchwardens and 
Overseers for the Time being of such 
Pai'ish, Township, or Place, or several 
united Parishes, Townships, or Places re¬ 
spectively, in the like Shares or Propor- 
. tions as they contributed towards the Pur¬ 
chase or Erection of the Workhouse, or 
other Houses, Tenements, and Buildings, 
Outhouses and Offices, Yards, Gardens, 
Orchards, Lands, and Grounds respectively, 
which shall be so sold, and be applied by 
such Churchwardens and Overseers of the 
Poor respectively, as Part of the Rates to 
be collected for the Relief of the Poor of 
the same Parish, Township, or Place, or 
several Parishes, Townships, or Places 
respectively. 
CAP. 
