* 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 gives Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to sit in Parliament.

After Amadeus abandonment in 1873, Parliament declared the Federal Republic ( including the Cuba, Puerto Ico and he Pacific Archipelagos ), the first act of President Estanbislao Figueras was to extend the Abolition Act to Puerto Rico.

* Act of the Scottish Parliament, usually written in the lower case as asp.

The Act of Settlement is an act of the Parliament of England that was passed in 1701 to settle the succession to the English and Irish crowns and thrones on the Electress Sophia of Hanover ( a granddaughter of James I ) and her Protestant heirs.

The Parliament of Scotland was not happy with the Act of Settlement and, in response, passed the Act of Security in 1704, through which Scotland reserved the right to choose its own successor to Queen Anne.

Stemming from this, the Parliament of England decided that, to ensure the stability and future prosperity of Great Britain, full union of the two parliaments and nations was essential before Anne's death and used a combination of exclusionary legislation ( the Alien Act of 1705 ), politics, and bribery to achieve it within three years under the Act of Union 1707.

In the Australian Capital Territory, the Act of Settlement was, on 11 May 1989, converted, from an act of the Parliament of England into an ACT enactment, by section 34 ( 4 ) of the Australian Capital Territory ( Self-Government ) Act 1988 ( Cwlth ), and then renamed The Act of Settlement 1700 by the Legislation Act 2001.

The Scottish Parliament unanimously passed a motion in 1999 calling for the complete removal of any discrimination linked to the monarchy and the repeal of the Act of Settlement.

In England a number of statutes on the subject have been passed, the chief being the Bastardy Act of the Parliament of 1845, and the Bastardy Laws Amendment Acts of 1872 and 1873.

Chapter 28 of the 1535 Act of Henry VIII, which provided that Monmouth, as county town, should return one burgess to Parliament, further stated that other ancient Monmouthshire boroughs were to contribute towards the payment of the member.

Accrington was first represented nationally after the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 after the 1885 general election by Accrington ( UK Parliament constituency ).

The Reform Act 1867 extended the franchise by 938, 427 – an increase of 88 % – by giving the vote to male householders and male lodgers paying at least 10 pounds for rooms and eliminating rotten boroughs with fewer than 10, 000 inhabitants, and granting constituencies to fifteen unrepresented towns, and extra representation in parliament to larger towns such as Liverpool and Manchester, which had previously been under-represented in Parliament.

Franklin became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act.

Additional awards were presented to the British fleet: Nelson was awarded £ 2, 000 (£ as of ) a year for life by the Parliament of Great Britain and £ 1, 000 per annum by the Parliament of Ireland, although the latter was inadvertently discontinued after the Act of Union dissolved the Irish Parliament.

On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum.

In 1816 these masterpieces of western art, were acquired by The British Museum by Act of Parliament and deposited in the museum thereafter.

In 1963 a new Act of Parliament introduced administrative reforms.

In the same year the Act of Parliament establishing the British Library was passed, separating the collection of manuscripts and printed books from the British Museum.

** The Dáil Éireann passes the Executive Authority ( Consequential Provisions ) Act, 1937, which abolishes the office of Governor-General of the Irish Free State, retrospectively dated to December 1936.

The historic term light railway was used because it dated from the British Light Railways Act 1896, although the technology used in the DLR system was at the high end of what Americans considered to be light rail.

The Act of Parliament permitting the embanking and straightening of the fenland Witham was dated 1762.

By Secretarial Order dated June 10, 1936, the undisposed of lands in Bennett County opened for settlement undre the 1910 Act were " restored to tribal ownership " and were " added to and made a part of the existing reservation ..."

On March 13, 1855, the City of Elizabeth was created by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature, combining and replacing both Elizabeth Borough ( which dated back to 1740 ) and Elizabeth Township ( which had been formed in 1693 ), based on the results of a referendum held on March 27, 1855.

It was opposed by the inhabitants of Worstead and Dilham, who feared that their businesses would collapse if boats could reach North Walsham, but the navigation was nevertheless authorised by an Act of Parliament dated 5 May 1812, which created the Company of Proprietors of the North Walsham and Dilham Canal Navigation.

From the Hansard Records of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, dated Monday, June 14, 2010, it is clear that the boundaries of the proposed Upper Fort Garry Heritage Provincial Park, described in Bill 27 – The Upper Fort Garry Heritage Provincial Park Act then under consideration, would not include the Manitoba Club building.

He then considered a more modest proposal, based on the original Bristol and Western plans, and the scheme, now renamed the Bristol and Taunton Canal, was authorised by an Act of Parliament dated 14 May 1811.

18 of the National Defense Act, and pursuant to Executive Order No. 11 of President Manuel L. Quezon dated January 11, 1936.

Thereafter, the insular police duties, formally reposed in the PC, was discharged by a " State Police " created by Commonwealth Act No. 88 dated October 26, 1936.

Mint weights, also known as moneyers ' weights were legalised by Act of Parliament dated 17 July 1649 entitled An Act touching the monies and coins of England.

However, the union of England and Scotland necessitated a change in the design of the arms on the shield in 1706 ( although the actual union took place on 1 May 1707, just over a month after the start of the year, the bill for the Act of Union received the Royal Assent on 6 March 1707 ( that is, still in 1706 by the old-style calendar )), therefore coins dated 1706 appear with both reverses.

On September 18, 1960, pursuant to the Republic Act 2786 dated June 19, 1960, the province of Surigao was divided into Surigao del Norte and Surigao del Sur.

The Act was formally titled the Succession to the Crown Act 1533 ( citation 25 Hen 8 c 22 ), or the Act of Succession 1533 ; it is often dated as 1534, as it was passed in that calendar year.

However, the legal calendar in use at that time dated the beginning of the year as March 25, and so considered the Act as being in 1533.

The Royal Commission also noted that the earliest insular Manx laws on record dated from 1417 ( the first Act on record being a restriction of the powers of the church to offer sanctuary ).

As Chase was preparing his recommendation to Congress, it was found that the Act of Congress dated January 18, 1837, prescribed the mottoes and devices that should be placed upon the coins of the United States.

A Circular No. 25 / 96 issued by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Local government and Housing dated 30 October 1996 declared Chienge a new District Council pursuant to Section 3 of the Local Government Act No. 22 of 1996.

In a letter dated late June, 2011 from the Attorney General of Kentucky to a retired member of the State Police of Kentucky, some 30 boxes of color slides taken the day after the fire, including pictures of the club's basement during the aftermath, were ordered to be returned to the State archives for public accessibility, as per the Freedom of Information Act.

The Act of Congress establishing this award ( 193-65th Congress ), dated July 9, 1918, is contained in.

An Air Force memorandum ( released via the Freedom of Information Act ) dated October 20, 1969 and signed by Brigadier General C. H.

* 1927 – Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, " Does the word ' Persons ' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?

* 1957 – U. S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957 ; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.

The governance of the university is conducted through the Board of Governors and the Senate, both of which were given much of their present powers in the Unofficial Consolidation of an Act for the Regulation and Support of Dalhousie College in Chapter 24 of the Acts of 1863.

On April 24, 1993, the Constitutional ( 73rd Amendment ) Act, 1992 came into force to provide constitutional status to the Panchayati Raj institutions.

This Act was extended to Panchayats in the tribal areas of eight States, namely Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Orissa and Rajasthan from 24 December 1996.

When Ray found himself unable to subscribe as required by the ‘ Bartholomew Act ’ of 1662 he, along with 13 other college fellows, resigned his fellowship on 24 August 1662

After Indian Independence in 1947, the West Bengal State Legislature, with the concurrence of the Government of India, enacted the Jadavpur University Act, 1955 to convert the institute into Jadavpur University with full autonomy on ( December 24, 1955 ).

On 6 December 1786, an Order in Council was issued, designating " the Eastern Coast of New South Wales, or some one or other of the Islands adjacent " as the destination for transported convicts, as required by the Transportation Act of 1784 ( 24 Geo. III, c. 56 ) that authorised the sending of convicted felons to any place appointed by the King in Council.

The Licensing Act 2003, which came into force on 24 November 2005, consolidated the many laws into a single Act.

" Scopes was charged with having taught from the chapter on evolution to an April 24, 1925, high-school class in violation of the Butler Act and nominally arrested, though he was never actually detained.

In terms of the provisions of the Insolvency Act ( Act 24 of 1936 ) assets transferred into a living trust remain at risk from external creditors for 6 months if the previous owner of the assets is solvent at the time of transfer, or 24 months if he / she is insolvent at the time of transfer.

Sections 22 to 24 and 26 to 28 of the Theft Act 1968 contain references to stolen goods.

The University was established via the passage of the University of Sydney Act, on 24 September 1850 and was assented on 1 October 1850 by Sir Charles Fitzroy.

The next day on October 24, 2001, the Act passed the House 357 to 66, with Democrats comprising the overwhelming portion of dissent.

* May 24 – The Immigration Act of 1924 was signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act.

* September 24 – The Judiciary Act of 1789 establishes the federal judiciary and the United States Marshals Service.

* February 24 – American University is established by an Act of Congress in Washington, D. C.

* March 24 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, requiring the thirteen American colonies to house British troops.

* June 24 – The Act of Settlement 1701 is passed by the Parliament of England to exclude the Catholic Stuarts from the British monarchy.

In opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957, he conducted the longest filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, nonstop.