Oxford University Act 1857

1857 CHAPTER 25

An Act to continue the Powers of the Commissioners under an Act of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty concerning the University of Oxford and the College of St. Mary Winchester, and further to amend the said Act.

[10th August 1857]

WHEREAS an [17 & 18 Vict. c. 81.] Act was passed in the Session holden in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Eighty-one, to make further Provision for the good Government and Extension of the University of Oxford, of the Colleges therein, and of the College of St. Mary Winchester, and the said Act has been amended by an [19 & 20 Vict. c. 31.] Act of the Session holden in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Years of Her Majesty, Chapter Thirty-one : And whereas by the first-recited Act. it was provided that the Powers thereby conferred on the Commissioners for the Purposes of that Act should be in force until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and that it should be lawful for Her Majesty, if She should think fit, by and with the Advice of Her, Privy Council, to continue the same until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and no longer: And whereas Her Majesty, by and with the Advice of Her Privy Council, has continued the said Powers until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight : And whereas it is expedient that the said Powers should be further continued, and that the said first-recited Act should be amended as herein-after mentioned :

Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the.Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows:,