22. To amend the laws relating to sewers.

PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS,

Passed in the FIRST Session of the ELEVENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. 3° & 4° Gul. IV.

1. To apply certain sums to the service of the year 1833. 2. For raising the sum of twelve millions by Exchequer Bills, for the service of the year 1833.

3. For continuing to his Majesty, until the 5th of April 1834, certain duties on sugar imported into the United Kingdom, and for one year certain duties on personal estates, offices, and pensions in England, for the service of the year 1833.

4. For the more effectual suppression of local disturbances and dangerous associations in Ireland.

5. For punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

6. For the regulation of his Majesty's royal marine forces while on shore.

7. To indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th day of March, 1834; to permit such persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the 1st day of Hilary term 1834, and to allow persons to make and file such affidavits, although the persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out

their annual certificates.

8. To amend an act for the conveyance of certain premises situate between London Bridge and the Tower of London.

9. For incorporating the members of a society, commonly called "The Seaman's Hospital Society," and their successors, as therein is mentioned and provided; and for the better enabling and empowering them to carry on the charitable and useful designs of the same society.

10. To reduce the duty payable on cotton wool imported into the United Kingdom.

11. For repealing the duties and drawbacks of excise on tiles.

12. To repeal the duties on personal estates continued by an act of the present session of parliament.

13. To provide for the execution of the duties performed by the Barons of Exchequer in Scotland in relation to the public revenue, and to place the management of the assessed taxes and land tax in Scotland under the commissioners for the affairs of taxes.

14. To enable depositors in Savings Banks, and others, to purchase government annuities through the medium of Savings Banks; and to amend an act of the ninth year of his late Majesty, to consolidate and amend the laws relating to Savings Banks.

15. To amend the laws relating to dramatic literary property.

16. To repeal the duties, allowances, and drawbacks of excise on soap, and to grant other duties, allowances, and drawbacks in lieu thereof.

17. For repealing part of an act of the twenty-sixth year of King George the Third, for better securing the duties on starch, and for preventing frauds on the said duties; and for making other provisions in lieu thereof.

18. To apply the sum of six millions out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year 1833.

19. For the more effectual administration of justice in the office of a justice of the peace in the several police offices established in the metropolis, and for the more effectual prevention of depredations on the river Thames and its vicinity, for three years.

20. To indemnify witnesses who may give evidence before either house of parliament touching the charge of bribery in the election of burgesses to serve in parliament for the Borough of Stafford.

21. To suspend until the end of the next session of par

23. To reduce the stamp duties on advertisements and on certain sea insurances; to repeal the stamp duties on pamphlets, and on receipts for sums under five pounds; and to exempt insurances on farming stock from stamp duties.

24. To amend an act of the tenth year of his late Majesty for regulating the reduction of the national debt.

25. For raising the sum of 15,752,650l. by Exchequer Bills, for the service of the year 1833.

26. To repeal so much of an act passed in the parliament of Ireland in the thirty-fourth year of his Majesty King George the Third as imposes fines on the masters of vessels lying in the river Liffey for having fires on board.

27. For the limitation of actions and suits relating to real property, and for simplifying the remedies for trying the rights thereto.

28. To repeal an act of the thirteenth year of his Majesty King George the First, for the better regulation of the woollen trade.

29. To make further provisions with respect to the payment of pensions granted for, service in the royal artillery, engineers, and other military corps under the control of the Master-general and Board of Ordnance, and with respect to deductions hereafter to be made from pensions granted by the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital.

30. To exempt from poor and church rates all churches, chapels, and other places of religious worship.

31. To enable the election of officers of corporations and other public companies now required to be held on the Lord's Day to be held on the Saturday next preceding, or on the Monday next ensuing.

32. To amend the several acts authorising advances for carrying on public works.

33. To amend three acts passed for maintaining and keeping in repair the military and parliamentary roads and bridges in the Highlands of Scotland, and to improve certain lines of communication in the counties of Inverness and Ross.

34. To continue, until the 5th of April, 1835, compositions for the assessed taxes.

35. To remedy certain defects as to the recovery of rates and assessments made by commissioners and other persons under divers inclosure and drainage acts after the execution of the final awards of the said commissioners.

36. To diminish the inconvenience and expense of commissions in the nature of writs de lunatico inquirendo; and to provide for the better care and treatment of idiots, lunatics, and persons of unsound mind found such by inquisition.

37. To alter and amend the laws relating to the temporalities of the church in Ireland.

38. To extend to the 21st of January, 1834, and to the end of the then next session of parliament, the time for carrying into execution an act of the first and second years of his present Majesty, for ascertaining the boundaries of the Forest of Dean, and for inquiring into the rights and privileges claimed by free miners of the hundred of Saint Briavels, and for other purposes.

39. To reduce certain of the duties on dwelling houses, and to repeal other duties of assessed taxes.

40. To repeal certain acts relating to the removal of poor persons born in Scotland and Ireland, and chargeable to parishes in England, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof, until the 1st of May, 1836, and to the end of the then next session of parliament.

41. For the better administration of justice in his Majesty's Privy Council.

42. For the further amendment of the law, and the better advancement of justice.

43. For transferring to the Commissioners of his Majesty's Woods and Forests the several powers now vested in the Holyhead Road Commissioners, and for discharging the lastmentioned commissioners from the future repairs and maintenance of the roads, harbours, and bridges now under their care and management.

44. To repeal so much of two acts of the 7th and 8th, and 9th of George IV., as inflicts the punishment of death upon persons, breaking, entering, and stealing in a dwellinghouse; also for giving power to the judges to add to the punishment of transportation for life in certain cases of forgery, and in certain other cases.

46. To enable burghs in Scotland to establish a general system of police.

47. To authorize his Majesty to give further powers to the judges of the Court of Bankruptcy, and to direct the times of sitting of the judges and commissioners of the said

court.

48. To amend an act of the second and third years of his present Majesty, relating to stage carriages in Great Britain; and also to explain and amend an act of the first and second years of his present Majesty, relating to hackney carriages used in the metropolis.

49. To allow Quakers and Moravians to make affirmation in all cases where an oath is or shall be required.

50. To repeal the several laws relating to the customs. 51. For the management of the customs.

52. For the general regulation of the customs.

53. For the prevention of smuggling.

54. For the encouragement of British shipping and navigation.

55. For the registering of British vessels. 56. For granting duties of customs.

57. For the warehousing of goods.

58. To grant certain bounties and allowances of customs. 59. To regulate the trade of the British possessions abroad.

60. For regulating the trade of the Isle of Man. 61. To admit sugar without payment of duty to be refined for exportation.

62. To defray the charge of the pay, clothing, and contingent and other expenses of the disembodied militia in Great Britain and Ireland; and to grant allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers, adjutants, paymasters, quartermasters, surgeons, assistant surgeons, surgeons' mates, and serjeant majors of the militia, until the 1st of July, 1834.

63. To render valid indentures of apprenticeship allowed only by two justices acting for the county in which the parish from which such apprentices shall be bound, and for the county in which the parish into which such apprentices shall be bound, shall be situated; and also for remedying defective executions of indentures by corporations. 64. To amend an act of the second and third year of his present Majesty, for regulating the care and treatment of insane persons in England.

65. To enable the Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom to acquire certain lands at Woolwich in the county of Kent, for better securing his Majesty's docks there, and for the improvement of the same.

66. To authorize the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury to purchase the duties of package, scavage, balliage, and porterage belonging to the corporation of London. 67. To amend an act of the second year of his present Majesty, for the uniformity of process in personal actions in his Majesty's courts of law at Westminster.

68. To amend the laws relating to the sale of wine, spirits, beer, and cider by retail in Ireland.

78. To amend the laws relating to grand juries in Ireland.

79. To provide for the more impartial trial of offences in certain cases in Ireland.

80. Requiring the annual statements of trustees or commissioners of turnpike-roads to be transmitted to the Secretary of State, and afterwards laid before parliament.

81. To authorise the application of part of the land revenue of the Crown for providing fixtures, furniture, fittings, and decorations for Buckingham Palace.

82. To allow the people called Separatists to make a solemn affirmation and declaration instead of an oath.

83. To compel banks issuing promissory notes payable to bearer on demand to make returns of their notes in circulation, and to authorize banks to issue notes payable in London for less than fifty pounds.

84. To provide for the performance of the duties of certain offices connected with the Court of Chancery, which have been abolished.

85. For effecting an arrangement with the East India Company, and for the better government of his Majesty's Indian territories, till the 30th day of April, 1854.

86. To provide for the payment of certain ancient grants and allowances formerly paid out of the civil list revenues. 87. For remedying a defect in titles to messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, allotted, sold, divided, or exchanged under acts of inclosure, in consequence of the award not having been inrolled, or not having been inrolled within the time limited by the several acts; and for authorizing the appointment of new commissioners in certain cases where the same shall have been omitted.

88. To continue for seven years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, an act of the fifty-ninth year of King George the Third, for facilitating the recovery of the wages of seamen in the merchants' service.

89. To authorize the issue of a sum of money out of the Consolidated Fund towards the support of the metropolitan police.

90. To repeal an act of the eleventh year of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, for the lighting and watching of parishes in England and Wales, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

91. For consolidating and amending the laws relative to jurors and juries in Ireland.

92. To explain and amend the provisions of certain acts for the erecting and establishing public infirmaries, hospitals, and dispensaries in Ireland.

93. To regulate the trade to China and India. 94. For the regulation of the proceedings and practice of certain offices of the High Court of Chancery in England.

70. To alter and amend an act of the forty-first year of his Majesty King George the Third, for the better regulation of public notaries in England.

71. For the appointment of convenient places for the holding of assizes in England and Wales.

72. For carrying into effect two conventions with the King of the French for suppressing the slave trade.

73. For the abolition of slavery throughout the British colonies, for promoting the industry of the manumitted slaves, and for compensating the persons hitherto entitled to the services of such slaves.

74. For the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for, the substitution of more simple modes of assurance.

75. To continue until the end of the next session of parliament, two acts for the prevention, as far as may be possible, of the disease called the cholera, or spasmodic or Indian cholera, in England and Scotland.

76. To alter and amend the laws for the election of the magistrates and conncils of the royal burghs in Scotland. 77. To provide for the appointment and election of ma

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97. To prevent the selling and uttering of forged stamps, and to exempt from stamp duty artificial mineral waters in Great Britain, and to allow a drawback on the exportation of gold and silver plate manufactured in Ireland.

98. For giving to the corporation of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England certain privileges, for a limited period, under certain conditions.

99. For facilitating the appointment of sheriffs, and the more effectual audit and passing of their accounts; and for the more speedy return and recovery of fines, issues, forfeited recognizances, penalties, and deodands; and to abolish certain offices in the Court of Exchequer.

100. For the relief of the owners of tithes in Ireland, and for the amendment of an act passed in the last session of parliament, intituled "An act to amend three acts passed respectively in the fourth, fifth, and in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, providing for the establishing of compositions for tithes in Ireland, and to make such compositions permanent."

101. To provide for the collection and management of the duties on tea.

102. To repeal certain penal enactments made in the par

providing annuities to the widows and children of the members of the Faculty of Procurators of Glasgow.

7. For granting certain powers to a company called "the Imperial Continental Gas Association."

8. For dissolving the corporation of the Leeds Oil Gas Light Company, and for vesting the estate and effects of the company in trustees, to be sold for the benefit of the parties interested therein; and for finally settling and adjusting the company's concerns.

9. For dissolving the St. George's Fund Society, otherwise called the Trooper's Fund, in the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, and for distributing the fund.

10. To amend the acts relating to the Thames Tunnel Company, and to extend the powers thereby given for raising money for the completion of the said tunnel.

III. For improvements of towns and districts there have been passed,

General Improvement.-1. For paving, lighting, watching, cleansing, and otherwise improving the township or chapelry of Birkenhead, in Cheshire; for regulating the police thereof, and for establishing a market within the said township.

2. To explain and amend previous acts, for carrying into effect certain improvements within the city of Edinburgh, and adjacent to the same.

3. For paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and improving the town and parishes of Gravesend and Milton, in the county of Kent, and for removing and preventing nuisances and annoyances therein.

4. For paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, repairing, and improving a certain portion of the parish of Herne, in the county of Kent.

5. For better regulating the market, and cleansing the streets, and preventing nuisances in the town of Taunton, in Somersetshire; and for amending two previous acts relative thereto.

6. For improving and enlarging the market-places within the city of York, and rendering the approaches thereto more commodious; and for regulating and maintaining the several markets and fairs held within the said city and the suburbs thereof; and for amending a previous act for paving, lighting, watching, and improving the said city, and other purposes.

Buildings.-7. For raising a sum of money for the repairs of Blackfriars Bridge.

8. For erecting a bridge over the river Dungleddan, within the town and county of Haverfordwest.

9. For erecting and maintaining a gaol, court-houses, and public offices for the burgh of Lanark, and the Upper Ward of the county of Lanark; and also for erecting a gaol, court-houses, and public offices for the burgh of Hamilton, and Middle Ward of the said county.

10. For making the hamlets of Newbold and Armscott a separate parish from the parish of Tredington, in the county and diocese of Worcester; and for building a church, and providing a churchyard and parsonage-house at Newbold. 11. For taking down the parish church of Stretton upon Dunsmore, in the county of Warwick, and building a new church in lieu thereof.

12. For building a bridge over the Trent, from Waltonupon-Trent, in Derbyshire, to Barton under Needwood, in Staffordshire.

Water-works.-13. For better supplying with water the city and county of the city of Exeter, and such part of the parish of St. David as is situated in the county of Devon. 14. For supplying with water the town and county of Haverfordwest, and the liberties thereof.

15. For better supplying with water the town and borough of Lewes, and the neighbourhood thereof, in the county of Sussex.

Gas-works.-16. For lighting with gas the borough of Congleton, and the township of Buglawton within the parish of Astbury, in the county of Chester.

Municipal Regulation, &c.-17. For repealing a previous act for the relief and employment of the poor in the hundred of Bosmere and Claydon, in the county of Suffolk; and for granting more effectual powers in lieu thereof.

18. For raising money to pay compensation for damages committed within the hundred of Broxtowe, in the county of Nottingham, during the late riots and tumults therein.

19. To alter and amend a previous act passed for better assessing and collecting the poor and other rates in the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, in the county of Surrey,

and regulating the affairs thereof, and for other relating thereto.

purposes

20. To appoint trustees for the creditors of the city of Edinburgh.

21. For amending several previous acts passed for the better relief and employment of the poor within the hundred of Forehal, in the county of Norfolk.

22. For the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts within the township of Hyde and other places therein mentioned, in the county of Chester.

23. To alter, amend, and enlarge the powers of a previous act passed for the better relief and employment of the poor in the hundred of Mutford and Lothingland, in the county of Suffolk.

24. To alter and enlarge the powers of several acts passed for the better relief and employment of the poor in the hundred of Wangford, in Suffolk.

IV. Under the head of Internal Communication, there have been 'passed seventy road-bills, and these have been chiefly for the more effectual repairing of the roads, or for enlarging the powers of the commissioners, &c. It would afford no useful information to detail the names of the particular places for which they were procured. We shall, therefore, only state that one is for Ireland, and embraces a more extensive district than is usually included in one English road-bill; it is for more effectually repairing several roads in the counties of Carlow, Kilkenny, and Tipperary; and also the road from the town of Clonmel, through the county of Waterford, to the cross-roads of Knocklofty, in the said county of Tipperary. Two are for Scotland, one for repairing, amending, and maintaining the turnpike-roads in the county of Haddington, for rendering turnpike certain statute-labour and parish roads, and for more effectually collecting and applying the statute labour in the said county; and one for renewing and extending the terms of the acts relating to the Greenock and Renfrew, and Greenock and Kelly Bridge roads in the county of Renfrew. In addition to these is the public act before alluded to, to amend previous acts passed for maintaining and keeping in repair the military and parliamentary roads and bridges in the highlands of Scotland, and to improve certain lines of communication in the counties of Inverness and Ross. Six are for Wales, which offer nothing remarkable; and the remaining sixty-one are for England.

The late session presents the singular feature of there not having been passed a single bill relating to canals. The increased celerity of movement afforded by rail-roads seems to have given a check to any extension of the inland navigation, though not before canals had been carried through the country in almost every direction, and aided most materially in promoting its prosperity, facilitating its commerce, and increasing the comfort and convenience of every class of society. In proportion as canal bills have fallen off, railway bills have increased. Out of sixteen bills brought into the House of Commons the following eleven have been passed into acts.

1. For making a railway from Birmingham to London. 2 and 3. To enable the Clarence (Durham) Railway Company to make certain additional branch railways; and to amend and enlarge the powers of the several acts for making and maintaining the said railway, and a second act to enable the company to make an extension of the line of their railway.

4. For making a railway from Greenwich to London. 5 and 6. To enable the company of proprietors of the Leicester and Swannington Railway, to execute additional works and branches, and for altering and amending the powers of the act relating to the said railway. Also a second act for making and maintaining a railway from the termination of the Leicester and Swannington Railway, in the township of Swannington, in the county of Leicester, to the Ashby-de-la-Zouch Railway, in the township of Worthington, in the said county, and a branch railway therefrom. This last is called the Coleorton Railway.

7. To alter, amend, and enlarge the powers of a previous act, passed for making and maintaining a railway or tramroad, from Gelly Gille Farm, in the parish of Llanelly, in the county of Carmarthen, to Machynis Pool, in the same parish and county; and for making and maintaining a wetdock at the termination of the said railway or tram-road at Machynis Pool aforesaid.

8. For making two branch railways from the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Railway; and for altering, amending,

9. For enabling the Stratford and Moreton Railway Company to make a new branch of railway to Shipstonupon-Stour, in the county of Worcester.

10. For making a railway from the Warrington and Newton Railway at Warrington, in Lancashire, to Birmingham, in Warwickshire, to be called the Grand Junction | Railway.

11. For making a railway from Whitby to Pickering, in the North Riding of the county of York.

V. The acts passed relating to Navigation have been :— 1. For better preserving the harbour of Maryport, and for lighting, and otherwise improving the township of Maryport, in Cumberland.

2. To alter and amend several acts passed relating to the harbour of Rye, in the county of Sussex, and for granting further powers for improving and completing the said harbour, and the navigation thereof.

3. To amend a previous act, passed for rebuilding, or for improving, regulating and maintaining the town-quay of Gravesend, in the county of Kent, and the landing-place belonging thereto; and for building a pier or jetty, adjoining thereto.

VI. The remaining twenty-eight bills fall under the head of Private Regulations. Of these, only the two following possess any public interest :

For settling and preserving Sir John Soane's Museum, Library, and Works of Art, in Lincoln's Inn Fields, in the county of Middlesex, for the benefit of the public, and for establishing a sufficient endowment for the due maintenance of the same.

For enabling and directing the trustees, acting under the will of Peter Thellusson, Esq., deceased, to grant certain leases of the estates subject to the trusts of the said will; and for other purposes.

The rest are bills for naturalization, exchanges, estates, divorce, and other matters of entirely individual interest.

It will be observed, on comparison with the statement in our first number, that the amount of private bills has been very considerably less during the late session, than for any of the years there given.

THE NEW BEER HOUSES.

THIS is a subject of such vast public importance in all its bearings, that we mean to devote a considerable part of our space to its consideration. By the two acts of 1 Will. IV. chaps. 51 and 64, both of which came into operation on the 10th of October, 1830, a change was made in the law, calculated to affect various great interests, as well as the comforts and general condition of the mass of the people, perhaps as directly as any measure that ever emanated from parliament. By the first of these statutes all duties upon beer, ale, or cider, brewed in Great Britain, were repealed; and by the second, the right to sell these commodities, which had been hitherto a privilege granted by favour to a comparatively small number of persons, was thrown open to all who

chose to exercise it.

To any one at all acquainted with the habits of the people of England, and, therefore, having even the vaguest notion of the immense extent of the consumption of beer in this country, the mere statement of these alterations of the law is enough to convey an impression of consequences of vast magnitude and importance. But a few facts will give a clearer view of the exact amount of the effect that must have been produced by the measure in some of the directions in which it operated.

In the first place, the loss of revenue to the government exceeded three millions sterling per annum; or, deducting somewhat less than a third of this sum as having been recovered by the increased consumption of malt, the diminution was still above two millions a-year. In the three years that have elapsed, about seven millions in all have been given up. Assuming that the revenue could bear this diminution, if the duties on beer had not been abolished, taxes of equivalent amount on some other article would have been repealed instead; and, therefore, the sum we have mentioned may be considered as the price that has been paid for whatever benefits this particular measure has brought with it.

But the remission of taxation, or the actual relief to the

amounting to the whole three millions per annum. That sum, which they had hitherto paid every year to the government, the people were henceforth to retain in their pockets, still drinking the same quantity of beer as before. If the consumption of malt has since extended, and that article has yielded a larger revenue, this is because more beer has been drunk by the people than heretofore. Say that the increase of the produce of the malt-tax has been one-eighth, which is so much more money that has been every year drawn from the people through this channel, the fact proves that for every eight pots of beer drunk before the remission of the duties and the opening of the trade, nine pots have been drunk since. Either every beer-drinker has had nine pots where he formerly had eight, or nine persons now consume the beverage for every eight that could formerly procure it;-or, what is no doubt the real state of the case, partly the one of these effects has been produced, and partly the other. But, at all events, and let the precise distribution of the benefit have been what it may, its amount is at least what we have stated.

It has most probably, indeed, been a good deal more. Owing to the corn-law, the supply of barley, from which malt is made, is prevented in this country from expanding in proportion to the demand; and, therefore, when the demand rises, (at least within a certain limit,) the price rises also. Such a rise of price has, in fact, been produced by the increased consumption of malt occasioned by the new beer law; and that circumstance has, of course, tended to enhance also the price of beer. But there is every reason to believe, that this influence has been much more than counteracted by other causes which have operated to reduce the price of the beverage. The opening of the trade has, of course, swept away the monopoly profits which the article was formerly made to yield. The largely-increased competition among the dealers in it has, independently of this consideration, produced its natural effect in reducing the rate at which it is sold. The augmented quantity that is disposed of, further goes to enable the dealer to let down his profit upon each separate barrel or pot. If he could formerly exist, and carry on his business with a profit of a penny on each pot, he can do so with a profit of only three farthings upon each, if he now sells four pots where he formerly sold three. Then the expense of fitting-up and maintaining the establishment of a beer-shop is a great deal less than that which the landlord of a public-house has to meet. Lastly, the more active competition which has been excited, and the direction of the trade into a new channel, have already had the effect of introducing improvements into the process of manufacturing beer, by means of which an equally good article can now be produced from a smaller quantity of malt, and, on other accounts, at a less cost generally. What has taken place is, in a multitude of respects, a most striking illustration of the regeneration and entirely new life which is given to a trade or branch of industry, by relieving it from the torpifying pressure of a monopoly, and suffering it to breathe the free air of competition. We ought to add, that in this case an additional relief still has been obtained by the manufacturer in his release from the interference of the excise in the operation of brewing, to which he was subject while the beer paid duty; and even this has, no doubt, its money value, which must be shared by the consumer. We have thus enumerated six different causes, besides the abolition of the duty, all of which must have tended, since the introduction of the new system, to reduce the price of beer. We shall in the sequel have occasion to examine with more precision what the effect of their conjoint operation, in the face of the single cause pressing in the opposite direction, has actually been.

But to one large division of the community, even the single circumstance which has operated to raise the price of beer has been a gain of no slight amount. The first year the trade was opened, the price of barley rose about six shillings the quarter. The measure, therefore, may be truly described as one of the greatest boons ever granted to the agricultural interest.

Such are the most remarkable financial effects which the change of the law has wrought. It may not be possible to ascertain their exact amount in pounds, shillings, and pence; but the general character of each, and the direction in which it has acted, cannot be made matter of dispute or doubt. There can be no question as to the following having been among the results of the new system a large sacri