List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1878

This is a list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed in the calendar year 1878 and the session 41 & 42 Vict.

The session 41 & 42 Vict was the fifth session of the twenty-first Parliament of the United Kingdom. Sources published during the regnal year 41 Vict refer to this session as 41 Vict, because, at that time, it was not known when the session would end.

During the year 1878 and the session 41 & 42 Vict, the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed 79 public general acts; 32 public acts of a local character, which were placed amongst the local and personal acts; 238 local acts; and 7 private acts printed by the Queen's Printer.

The number shown after each act's short title or popular title is its chapter number. Acts passed before 1963 are cited using this number, preceded by the year(s) of the reign during which the relevant parliamentary session was held.

Most of these acts have a short title. Some of these acts have never had a short title. Some of these acts have a short title given to them by later acts, such as by the Short Titles Act 1896.

Public general acts

 * Acknowledgement of Deeds by Married Women (Ireland) Act 1878 c 23
 * Admiralty and War Office Regulation Act 1878 c 53
 * Adulteration of Seeds Act 1878 c 17
 * Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act 1878 c 62 (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1898)
 * Appropriation Act 1878 c 65
 * Arranmore Polling District Act 1878 c 75
 * Baths and Washhouses Act 1878 c 14
 * Bills of Exchange Act 1878 c 13
 * Bills of Sale Act 1878 c 31
 * Bishoprics Act 1878 c 68
 * British Museum Act 1878 c 55
 * Commons (Expenses) Act 1878 c 56
 * Consolidated Fund Act (6,000,000l.) c 1
 * Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1878 c 9
 * Consolidated Fund (No. 3) Act 1878 c 21
 * Consolidated Fund (No. 4) Act 1878 c 45
 * Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act 1878 c 74
 * County of Hertford Act 1878 c 50
 * Customs and Inland Revenue Act 1878 c 15 (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1973)
 * Debtors Act 1878 c 54
 * Dentists Act 1878 c 33
 * Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Act 1878 c 59
 * Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn (Establishment) Act 1878 c 46. Sometimes called the Duke of Connaught, Annuity Act 1878.
 * Education (Scotland) Act 1878 c 78
 * Elders Widows' Fund (India) Act 1878 c 47
 * Endowed Institutions (Scotland) Act 1878 c 48
 * Entail Amendment (Scotland) Act 1878 c 28
 * Exchequer Bills and Bonds Act 1878 c 2
 * Exchequer Bonds Act 1878 c 7
 * Exchequer Bonds (No. 2) Act 1878 c 22
 * Exchequer Bonds and Bills (No. 2) Act 1878 c 64
 * Expiring Laws Continuance Act 1878 c 70
 * Factory and Workshop Act 1878 c 16
 * Fiji Marriage Act 1878 c 61
 * Foreign Jurisdiction Act 1878 c 67
 * Freshwater Fisheries Act 1878 c 39
 * General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Amendment Act 1878 c 30
 * Glebe Loan (Ireland) Amendment Act 1878 c 6
 * Highways and Locomotives (Amendment) Act 1878 c 77
 * House Occupiers Disqualification Removal Act 1878 c 3
 * House Occupiers Disqualification Removal (Scotland) Act 1878 c 5
 * Innkeepers Act 1878 c 38
 * Intermediate Education (Ireland) Act 1878 c 66
 * Locomotives Amendment (Scotland) Act 1878 c 58
 * Lunatic Asylums Loans (Ireland) Act 1878 c 24
 * Marine Mutiny Act 1878 c 11
 * Marriage Notice (Scotland) Act 1878 c 43
 * Matrimonial Causes Act 1878 c 19
 * Metropolis Management and Building Acts Amendment Act 1878 c 32
 * Metropolitan Board of Works (Money) Act 1878 c 37
 * Metropolitan Commons Act 1878 c 71
 * Monuments (Metropolis) Act 1878 c 29
 * Mutiny Act 1878 c 10
 * Parliamentary Elections (Metropolis) Act 1878 c 4 (Repealed by Elections (Hours of Poll) Act 1885)
 * Parliamentary Elections Returning Officers Expenses (Scotland) Act 1878 c 41
 * Parliamentary and Municipal Registration Act 1878 c 26
 * Petty Sessions Clerks and Fines (Ireland) Act 1878 c 69
 * Police (Expenses) Continuance Act 1878 c 36
 * Poor Afflicted Persons Relief (Ireland) Act 1878 c 60
 * Prison (Officers Superannuation) Act 1878 c 63
 * Prisons Authorities Act 1874 Amendment Act 1878 c 40
 * Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 c 52
 * Public Health (Water) Act 1878 c 25
 * Public Parks (Scotland) Act 1878 c 8
 * Public Works Loans Act 1878 c 18
 * Railway Returns (Continuous Brakes) Act 1878 c 20
 * Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act 1878 c 51
 * Sale of Liquors on Sunday (Ireland) Act 1878 c 72
 * South Wales Highway Act Amendment Act 1878 c 34
 * Statute Law Revision Act 1878 c 79
 * Statute Law Revision (Ireland) Act 1878 c 57
 * Supreme Court of Judicature (Officers) Act 1878 c 35
 * Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877 Amendment Act 1878 c 27
 * Telegraph Act 1878 c 76
 * Territorial Waters Jurisdiction Act 1878 c 73
 * Threshing Machines Act 1878 c 12
 * Tithe Act 1878 c 42 (Repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1998)
 * Truro Chapter Act 1878 c 44
 * Weights and Measures Act 1878 c 49

Chapters i to c

 * Linen and Yarn Halls (Dublin) Act 1878 c. i
 * Brighton Aquarium (Capital) Act 1878 c. ii
 * Royal Bank of Scotland Officers Widows Fund (Amendment) Act 1878 c. iii
 * Aspinwall's Patent Act 1878 c. iv
 * Birkenhead, Chester, and North Wales Railway (Abandonment) Act 1878 c. v
 * Bodmin and Wadebridge and Delabole Railway (Abandonment) Act 1878 c. vi
 * Cornwall Mineral and Bodmin and Wadebridge Junction Railway (Abandonment) Act 1878 c. vii
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Bristol, &c.) Act 1878 c. viii
 * Hartlepool Gas and Water Act 1878 c. ix
 * Brading Harbour District Gas Act 1878 c. x
 * Deal Water Act 1878 c. xi
 * Serle Street and Cook's Court Improvement Act 1878 c. xii
 * Swindon, Marlborough, and Andover Railway Act 1878 c. xiii
 * Sevenoaks Waterworks Act 1878 c. xiv
 * Bala and Festiniog Railway Act 1878 c. xv
 * Dublin Corporation Waterworks Acts Amendment Act 1878 c. xvi
 * Imperial Continental Gas Association Act 1878 c. xvii
 * Farnworth and Kearsley Gas Act 1878 c. xviii
 * Exeter Chapel of St. John's Hospital Act 1878 c. xix
 * Newent Railway Act 1878 c. xx
 * Ross and Ledbury Railway Act 1878 c. xxi
 * London and Saint Katharine Docks Act 1878 c. xxii
 * Legal and General Life Assurance Society's Act 1878 c. xxiii
 * Charnwood Forest Railway Act 1878 c. xxiv
 * Somerset and Dorset Railway (Nettlebridge Branch Railway Abandonment) Act 1878 c. xxv
 * Torquay Gas Act 1878 c. xxvi
 * Batley Corporation Waterworks Act 1878 c. xxvii
 * Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway Act 1878 c. xxviii
 * Saint James's Gate Brewery (Dublin) Tramways Act 1878 c. xxix
 * Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway Act 1878 c. xxx
 * West Lancashire Railway (Steam Vessels) Act 1878 c. xxxi
 * Wiggenhall Saint Mary Magdalen Drainage Act 1878 c. xxxii
 * Cannock Chase Railway (Extension) Amendment Act 1878 c. xxxiii
 * Shrewsbury Gas Act 1878 c. xxxiv
 * Cleveland Mineral Railway Act 1878 c. xxxv
 * East Norfolk Railway Act 1878 c. xxxvi
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Abingdon, &c.) Act 1878 c. xxxvii
 * Drainage and Improvement of Lands Supplemental Act (Ireland) 1878 c. xxxviii
 * Borrowstounness Town and Harbour (Amendment) Act 1878 c. xxxix
 * Yarmouth and North Norfolk (Light) Railway Act 1878 c. xl
 * Marske and Saltburn Gas Act 1878 c. xli
 * Birmingham Closed Burial Grounds Act 1878 c. xlii
 * York United Gaslight Company's Act 1878 c. xliii
 * Truro Water (Extension of Time) Act 1878 c. xliv
 * Nottingham Waterworks Act 1878 c. xlv
 * Pegwell Bay Reclamation and Sandwich Haven Improvement Act 1878 c. xlvi
 * Clyde Navigation Act 1878 c. xlvii
 * Lewes Gas Act 1878 c. xlviii
 * Lea Bridge District Gas Act 1878 c. xlix
 * Scarborough Waterworks Amendment Act 1878 c. l
 * Pacific Steam Navigation Company Act 1878 c. li
 * Preston Tramways Act 1878 c. lii
 * Scottish Union and National Insurance Company's Act 1878 c. liii
 * Hull Street Tramways Act 1878 c. liv
 * Manchester Division and Borough of Salford (Stipendiary Justices) Act 1878 c. lv
 * Gas and Water Orders Confirmation Act 1878 c. lvi
 * Local Government Board's (Gas) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Droitwich, &c.) Act, 1878 c. lvii
 * Education Department Provisional Order Confirmation (Mickleover) Act 1878 c. lvii
 * Bristol Port and Channel Dock Act 1878 c. lix
 * Glasgow Public Parks Act 1878 c. lx
 * Burton-upon-Trent Improvement Act 1878 c. lxi
 * Westhoughton Local Board Act 1878 c. lxii
 * Dalton-in-Furness District Local Board Act 1878 c. lxiii
 * Forth Bridge Railway Act 1878 c. lxiv
 * Liverpool Improvement Act 1878 c. lxv
 * South Hants Water Act 1878 c. lxvi
 * Tredegar Water and Gas Act 1878 c. lxvii
 * Conway Bridge Act 1878 c. lxviii
 * Govan Burgh Act 1878 c. lxix
 * Alloa Harbour Act 1878 c. lxx
 * Newhaven Harbour Improvement Act 1878 c. lxxi
 * London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Croydon, Oxted, and East Grinstead Railways) Act 1878 c. lxxii
 * Cockermouth and Workington Water Act 1878 c. lxxiii
 * London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway (Various Powers) Act 1878 c. lxxiv
 * Scarborough Corporation Water Act 1878 c. lxxv
 * East Grinstead Gas and Water Act 1878 c. lxxvi
 * Rhondda Valley and Hirwain Junction Railway Act 1878 c. lxxvii
 * Hemel Hempsted District Gas Act 1878 c. lxxviii
 * Glasgow Municipal Buildings Act 1878 c. lxxix
 * Bedlingtonshire Local Board (Water) Act 1878 c. lxxx
 * South Staffordshire Mines Drainage Act 1878 c. lxxxi
 * Blackpool Pier Act 1878 c. lxxxii
 * Llanelly Harbour Act 1878 c. lxxxiii
 * Clitheroe Corporation Act 1878 c. lxxxiv
 * Nettlebridge Valley Railway (Abandonment) Act 1878 c. lxxxv
 * Tees Conservancy Act 1878 c. lxxxvi
 * Market Deeping Railway Act 1878 c. lxxxvii
 * Sleaford Navigation (Abandonment) Act 1878 c. lxxxviii
 * Rhins of Galloway Railway Act 1878 c. lxxxix
 * Great Eastern Railway (Northern Extension) Act 1878 c. xc
 * Nottingham Improvement Act 1878 c. xci
 * Southport Waterworks Act 1878 c. xcii
 * Merrybent and Darlington Railway Company (Winding Up) Act 1878 c. xciii
 * Dundee Street Tramways, Turnpike Roads, and Police Act 1878 c. xciv
 * London and North-western and Furness Railway Companies (Whitehaven, Cleator, and Egremont Railway Vesting) Act 1878 c. xcv
 * Midland Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1878 c. xcvi
 * Wigan Junction Railways Act 1878 c. xcvii
 * Great Northern Railway (Spalding to Lincoln) Act 1878 c. xcviii
 * Staines and West Drayton Railway Act 1878 c. xcix
 * Glasgow Municipal Act 1878 c. c

Chapters ci to cc

 * London and North-western Railway (Wortley to Leeds, &c.) Act 1878 c. ci
 * Fraserburgh Harbour Act 1878 c. cii
 * General Police and Improvement (Scotland) Act 1862 Order Confirmation (Paisley) Act 1878 c. ciii
 * Local Government Board's (Poor Law) Provisional Orders Confirmation (Birmingham, &c.) Act 1878 c. civ
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Artizans and Labourers Dwellings) Act 1878 c. cv
 * Public Health (Scotland) Act 1867 Order Confirmation (Lochgelly) Act 1878 c. cvi
 * Education Department Provisional Order Confirmation (Portsmouth) Act, 1878 c. cvii
 * Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Order Confirmation (Artizans and Labourers Dwellings) Act 1878 c. cviii
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Belper Union, &c.) Act 1878 c. cix
 * Education Department Provisional Orders Confirmation (Birmingham, &c.) Act 1878 c. cx
 * Education Department Provisional Order Confirmation (London) Act 1878 c. cxi
 * Metropolis (Bowman's Buildings, Marylebone, and Essex Road, Islington) Improvement Provisional Orders Confirmation Act, 1878 c. cxii
 * Inclosure (Orford) Provisional Order Confirmation Act 1878 c. cxiii
 * Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation Act 1878 (No. 1) c. cxiv
 * Pier and Harbour Orders Confirmation Act 1878 (No. 2) c. cxv
 * Local Government Board (Ireland) Provisional Orders (Dungarvan, &c.) Confirmation Act 1878 c. cxvi
 * Ballymena, Cushendall, and Redbay Railway Act 1878 c. cxvii
 * Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Act 1878 c. cxviii
 * Bangor Local Board Act 1878 c. cxix
 * Jarrow Improvement Act 1878 c. cxx
 * Glasgow Juvenile Delinquency Prevention and Repression Act 1878 c. cxxi
 * Newry Commissioners Gas Act 1878 c. cxxii
 * Southern Railway Act 1878 c. cxxiii
 * Waterford and Central Ireland Railway Act 1878 c. cxxiv
 * Cardiff (River Side) Road and Bridge Act 1878 c. cxxv
 * South-western Railway Act 1878 c. cxxvi
 * Corporation of London (Open Spaces) Act 1878 c. cxxvii
 * Bradford Tramways Act 1878 c. cxxviii
 * Cleator and Workington Junction Railway Extension Act 1878 c. cxxix
 * Manchester South Junction and Altrincham Railway Act 1878 c. cxxx
 * Stoke-upon-Trent and Fenton Gas Act 1878 c. cxxxi
 * Leicester Corporation Gas and Water Transfer Act 1878 c. cxxxii
 * Bradford Water and Improvement Act 1878 c. cxxxiii
 * Grand Junction Waterworks Act 1878 c. cxxxiv
 * Lichfield Gas Act 1878 c. cxxxv
 * Trowbridge Water Act 1878 c. cxxxvi
 * Hamilton Burgh Act 1878 c. cxxxvii
 * Great Southern and Western Railway Act 1878 c. cxxxviii
 * Limavady and Dungiven Railway Act 1878 c. cxxxix
 * North British Railway Act 1878 c. cxl
 * Manchester Suburban Tramways Act 1878 c. cxli
 * Taff Vale Railway Act 1878 c. cxlii
 * Ramsey and Somersham Junction Railway Act 1878 c. cxliii
 * Cardiff Waterworks Act 1878 c. cxliv
 * Plumstead Common Act 1878 c. cxlv
 * Neath Harbour Act 1878 c. cxlvi
 * Swansea Improvements and Tramways Act 1878 c. cxlvii
 * Clare Slob Land Reclamation Amendment Act 1878 c. cxlviii
 * Dublin Tramways Act 1878 c. cxlix
 * Glasgow, Yoker, and Clydebank Railway Act 1878 c. cl
 * Great Northern Railway (Further Powers) Act 1878 c. cli
 * Dudley and Oldbury Junction Railway Act 1878 c. clii
 * Maryport Improvement Act 1878 c. cliii
 * Metropolitan District Railway Act 1878 c. cliv
 * Great Eastern Railway (General Powers) Act 1878 c. clv
 * Bradford Canal Transfer Act 1878 c. clvi
 * Drumcondra, Clonliffe, and Glasnevin Township Act 1878 c. clvii
 * Dublin Central Tramways Act 1878 c. clviii
 * Dublin Southern District Tramways Act 1878 c. clix
 * Limerick Corporation Gas Act 1878 c. clx
 * Normanton Gas Act 1878 c. clxi
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Bournemouth, &c.) Act 1878 c. clxii
 * Tramways Orders Confirmation Act 1878 (No. 2) c. clxiii
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Abergavenny Union, &c.) Act 1878 c. clxiv
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Orders Confirmation (Dawlish, &c.) Act 1878 c. clxv
 * Conway Bridge Composition of Debt Act 1878 c. clxvi
 * Callander and Oban Railway Act 1878 c. clxvii
 * Cheadle Railway Act 1878 c. clxviii
 * Radcliffe and Pilkington Gas Act 1878 c. clxix
 * Exeter Gas Act 1878 c. clxx
 * South Staffordshire Waterworks Act 1878 c. clxxi
 * Sutton-in-Ashfield Local Board Gas Act 1878 c. clxxii
 * Caledonian Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1878 c. clxxiii
 * Chester Tramways Act 1878 c. clxxiv
 * Great Eastern and Bury Saint Edmund's and Thetford Railway Companies Act 1878 c. clxxv
 * Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Act 1878 c. clxxvi
 * Brecon Markets Amendment Act 1878 c. clxxvii
 * Draperstown Railway Act 1878 c. clxxviii
 * East Retford Borough Act 1878 c. clxxix
 * Belfast Improvement Act 1878 c. clxxx
 * London and North-western Railway (Additional Powers) Act 1878 c. clxxxi
 * London and North-western Railway (New Railways, &c.) Act 1878 c. clxxxii
 * Metropolitan Railway Act 1878 c. clxxxiii
 * Newbury Borough Extension Act 1878 c. clxxxiv
 * Weston-super-Mare Improvement Commissioners Water Act 1878 c. clxxxv
 * Dover and Deal Railway Act 1878 c. clxxxvi
 * Castleford and Whitwood Gas Act 1878 c. clxxxvii
 * Cromwell Road Bridge Act 1878 c. clxxxviii
 * Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford Railway Act 1878 c. clxxxix
 * Exeter Corporation Water Act 1878 c. cxc
 * Waterford and Limerick Railway Act 1878 c. cxci
 * Letterkenny Railway Act 1878 c. cxcii
 * Ramsgate Improvement Act 1878 c. cxciii
 * Stockton-on-Tees (Quay and Markets) Act 1878 c. cxciv
 * Ballycastle Railway Act 1878 c. cxcv
 * Forfar Water Act 1878 c. cxcvi
 * Mansfield Commissioners Gas Act 1878 c. cxcvii
 * Mersey Docks and Harbour Board (Over-Head Railways) Act 1878 c. cxcviii
 * South-eastern Railway Act 1878 c. cxcix
 * Enniskillen, Bundoran, and Sligo Railway Amendment Act 1878 c. cc

Chapters cci to ccxxv

 * Navan and Kingscourt Railway Act 1878 c. cci
 * Bournemouth Gas and Water Act 1878 c. ccii
 * Cheltenham Corporation Water Act 1878 c. cciii
 * Glasgow and South-western Railway Act 1878 c. cciv
 * North-eastern Railway Company's Act 1878 c. ccv
 * Waterford, Dungarvan, and Lismore Railway (Extension) Act 1878 c. ccvi
 * Great Western and South Devon Railway Companies Amalgamation Act 1878 c. ccvii
 * Great Western Railway Act 1878 c. ccviii
 * Warrington Waterworks Act 1878 c. ccix
 * Littleport and Downham District Act 1878 c. ccx
 * Local Government Board's Provisional Order Confirmation (Darenth Valley) Act 1878 c. ccxi
 * Corrib (Galway) River Act 1878 c. ccxii
 * Epping Forest Act 1878 c. ccxiii
 * Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway (Arrangement) Act 1878 c. ccxiv
 * Pontypridd, Caerphilly, and Newport Railway Act 1878 c. ccxv
 * Thames Conservancy Act 1878 c. ccxvi
 * Ilen Valley Railway (Bantry Extension) Act 1878 c. ccxvii
 * Rosebush and Fishguard Railway Act 1878 c. ccxviii
 * Teign Valley Railway Act 1878 c. ccxix
 * Free Church of Scotland School Properties Act 1878 c. ccxx
 * Metropolitan Inner Circle Completion Railway Act 1878 c. ccxxi
 * River Fergus Reclamation Act 1878 c. ccxxii
 * Banbury and Cheltenham Direct Railway Act 1878 c. ccxxiii
 * Croydon Tramways Act 1878 c. ccxxiv
 * Leominster and Bromyard Railway Act 1878 c. ccxxv
 * Portishead Docks Act 1878 c. ccxxvi
 * Ballymena and Larne Railway Extension Act 1878 c. ccxxvii
 * Newnham Bridge Act 1878 c. ccxxviii
 * Princetown Railway Act 1878 c. ccxxix
 * Waterford and Wexford Railway Act 1878 c. ccxxx
 * Tramways Orders Confirmation (No. 1) Act 1878 c. ccxxxi
 * Tramway Order Confirmation (No. 3) Act 1878 c. ccxxxii
 * Inclosure Provisional Orders Confirmation Act 1878 c. ccxxxiii
 * Aberdeen District Tramways Extension Act 1878 c. ccxxxiv
 * Belfast Street Tramways Act 1878 c. ccxxxv
 * Boston District Tramways Act 1878 c. ccxxxvi
 * Glyn Valley Tramway Act 1878 c. ccxxxvii
 * Wallasey Tramways Act 1878 c. ccxxxviii

Private acts

 * Lord Exeter's Estate Act 1878 c. 1
 * Brooks' Settled Estates Partition Confirmation Act 1878 c. 2
 * Cooke Estate Act 1878 c. 3
 * Marquis of Stafford's Estate Act 1878 c. 4
 * Lord Tredegar's Supplemental Estate Act 1878 c. 5
 * Traherne's Estate Act 1878 c. 6
 * Vane Tempest Settled Estate Act 1878 c. 7

Tables and indexes
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