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Cap. 6. For punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

Cap. 7. For the regulation of his Majefty's marine forces, while on fhore.

Cap. 8. To continue for a further time an act made in the eighth year of his prefent Majefty's reign, intituled, An att ta continue and amend an act made in the fifth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for importation of falted beef, pork, bacon, and butter, from Ireland, for a limited time; and for allowing the importation of falted beef, pork, bacon, and butter, from the British dominions in America, for a limited time.

Cap. 9. For the better paving, repairing, cleansing, lighting, and watching the streets and other publick paffages within the city of Winchester; and alfo within the feveral parishes of Saint Bartholomew Hide, Saint John's in the Soke, Saint Peter's Cheesebill, Saint Swithin and Saint Michael in the Weft Soke, in the suburbs of the faid city; and for preventing nuifances and annoyances therein; and for widening and rendering the fame more commodious.

Cap. 10. For carrying into execution an agreement made between Peter Burrel efquire, furveyor-general of his Majesty's lands, and the trustees of Morden College, in the county of Kent, for enabling his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, to grant leafes of Maidenftone Hill, in the parish of East Greenwich, in the county of Kent, to the faid trustees, upon the terms mentioned in the faid agreement; and for impowering the faid trustees to increase the falaries and penfions of the treasurer, chaplain, and poor merchants, in the faid college.

Cap. 11. For further continuing two acts made in the fixth and ninth years of his Majefty's reign, for punishing mutiny and defertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters, in his Majefty's dominions in America.

Cap. 12. For better paving the ftreets, fquares, lanes, courts, alleys, ways, and other publick paffages, in that part of Goodman's Fields, which lies in the parish of Saint Mary Matfellon, otherwife Whitechapel, in the county of Middlesex, and alfo Red Lion Street and White Lion ftreet, lying contiguous to the faid fields, and for removing and preventing nuifances, annoyances, and obftructions therein.

Cap. 13. To explain a claufe in an act of the laft feffion of parliament, for better fupplying the city of Worcester, and the liberties thereof, with water; and for better paving and lighting the faid city; and for removing and preventing all obftructions and annoyances therein.

Cap. 14. For the better regulating the poor within the city of Oxford.

Cap. 15. For the better paving that part of the High Street, in the parish of Saint Mary Matfellon, otherwife Whitechapel, which lies in the county of Middlefex, and for removing obftructions and annoyances therein.

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Cap. 16. To enable his Majefty to licence a playhouse in the town of Liverpoole, in the county palatine of Lancaster.

Cap. 17. To explain and amend fo much of an act of the fixth year of his prefent Majefty, for paving the town and borough of Southwark, in the county of Surrey, as relates to the commiffioners of fewers; and for regulating the manner of taxing churches, and other publick buildings, within the limits of the faid act.

Cap. 18. To indemnify perfons who have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and to indemnify justices of the peace and others who have omitted to regifter their qualifications within the time limited by law; and for giving further time for those purposes.

Cap. 19. For amending certain of the mile-ways leading to Oxford; for making a commodious entrance through the parish of Saint Clement; for rebuilding or repairing Magdalen Bridge; for making commodious roads from the faid bridge through the univerfity and city, and the avenues leading thereto; for cleanfing and lighting the streets, lanes, and places, within the faid univerfity and city, and the fuburbs thereof, and the said parish of Saint Clement; for removing nuifances and annoyances therefrom, and preventing the like for the future; for impowering colleges and corporations to alienate their eftates there; for removing, holding, and regulating markets within the faid city s and for other purposes.

Cap. 20. To enable lunaticks intitled to renew leafes, their guardians and committees, to accept of furrenders of old leafes, and grant new ones.

Cap. 21. For paving Wapping Street, in the county of Middlefex, and the feveral streets and paffages leading into the fame; and for removing all encroachments and obftructions therefrom, and preventing the like for the future; and for opening a paffage from Hermitage Street into Nightingale Lane; and for paving fuch paffage, and the eaft fide of Nightingale Lane.

Cap. 22. To amend and render more effectual feveral acts made relating to paving, cleanfing, and lighting the fquares, ftreets, lanes, and other places, within the city and liberty of Westminster, and parts adjacent.

Cap. 23. For paving and regulating Rosemary Lane, from the parish of Saint Botolph, Aldgate, to Cable Street; alfo the faid Cable Street, the foot-path in Back Lane, part of the precinct of Well Clofe, the street leading from Nightingale Lane to Ratcliffe Crefs, Butcher Row, and Brook Street, and the several streets, lanes, and paffages opening into the fame; and for removing all obftructions and annoyances therefrom, and preventing the like for the future.

Cap.24. For licenfing an additional number of hackney coaches, and applying the monies arifing thereby.

Cap. 25. For raifing a certain fum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and feventy-one.

Cap. 26. For further continuing the tolls upon London Bridge,

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for the purposes therein mentioned; and for impowering the mayor, aldermen, and commons of the city of London, in common council affembled, in certain cafes, to grant licences to perfons poffeffed of terms for years, of and in houfes defcribed in an act of the feventh year of his prefent Majefty, to build upon and inclose part of the ground and foil of the streets in the front of their faid houses.

Cap. 27. For regulating and improving the fisheries in the river Tweed, and the rivers and streams running into the same; and also within the mouth or entrance of the said river.

Cap. 28. For punishing offences committed by hackney coachmen and chairmen, within certain diftricts and places therein mentioned; and for renewing the registry of carts and carriages.

Cap. 29. For confolidating, extending, and rendering more effectual the powers granted by feveral acts of parliament, for making, enlarging, amending, and cleanfing the vaults, drains, and fewers, within the city of London, and liberties thereof; and for paving, cleansing, and lighting the streets, lanes, squares, yards, courts, alleys, paffages, and places; and preventing and removing obftructions and annoyances within the fame.

Cap. 30. For cleanfing and lighting the streets of the town of South Leith, the territory of Saint Anthony's, and Yard Heads thereunto adjoining, and for supplying the feveral parts thereof with fresh water.

Cap. 31. For the encouragement of the white herring fishery. Cap. 32. For defraying the charge of the pay and cloathing of the militia in that part of Great Britain called England, for one year, beginning the twenty-fifth day of March, one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-one; for indemnifying the landholders of the Isle of Wight from the payinent of the monies due by virtue of an act of the ninth year of his prefent Majefty; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 33. For paving, repairing, cleanfing, lighting, and watching the streets, fquares, lanes, and other paffages, within the parish of Saint John, Clerkenwell, in the county of Middlefex, and for removing obftructions and annoyances therein.

Cap. 34. For enabling certain perfons to inclofe and embank part of the river Thames, adjoining to Durham Yard,Salisbury Street, Cecil Street, and Beauford Buildings, in the county of Middlesex.

Cap. 35. For reducing into one act of parliament the feveral laws relating to the keeping and carriage of gunpowder, and for more effectually preventing mischiefs by keeping or carrying gunpowder in too great quantities.

Cap. 36. For cleanfing, lighting, and watching the feveral ftreets, and other paffages, on the fouth fide of the city of Edinburgh, and for removing nuifances and annoyances therefrom, and preventing the fame for the future.

Cap. 37. To prohibit the exportation of live cattle, and other flesh provifions, from Great Britain for a limited time.

Cap. 38. For the better fupport and establishment of the Greenland and whale fishery.

Cap. 39. To

Cap. 39. To amend an act made in the last feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for extending like liberty in the exportation of rice from Eaft and Weft Florida to the fouthward of Cape Finifterre in Europe, as is granted by former acts of parliament to Carolina and Georgia.

Cap. 40. For the more effectually preventing the counterfeiting the copper coin of this realm.

Cap. 41. To explain an act made in the eighth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Firft, intituled, An act giving further encouragement for the importation of naval ftores, and for other purposes therein mentioned, fo far as relates to the importation of unmanufactured wood of the growth and product of America; and to explain fo much of an act made in the twentyfixth year of the reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An act for enlarging and regulating the trade into the Levant feas, as relates to the importation of raw filk and mohair yarn landed at certain places therein mentioned.

Cap. 42. To explain and amend an act made in the laft feffion of parliament, intituled, An act to regulate the trials of controverted elections, or returns of members to ferve in parliament.

Cap. 43. For eftablishing a house or houses of industry in the Ife of Wight, for the reception, maintenance, and employment of the poor belonging to the feveral parishes, and places, within the faid ifland.

Cap. 44. For the better paving, repairing, and cleansing the ftreets, lanes, alleys, and other publick paffages, within that part of the town of Wakefield, in the county of York, which lies within the east end of Weftgate Bridge, the fouth fide of Northgate Bar, the north end of Kirkgate Bridge, (except fo much thereof as is repaired by the weft riding of the faid county of York) and the extreme part of the township of Wakefield aforefaid, leading from Wrengate towards Eaft Moor; for preventing nuifances and annoyances therein, and for widening and rendering the fame more commodious.

Cap. 45. For improving and completing the navigation of the rivers Thames and Ifis, from the city of London, to the town of Cricklade, in the county of Wilts.

Cap. 46. For paving, and keeping in repair, the streets, lanes, and paffages, in the parish of Saint Luke, in the county of Middefex; for removing obftructions and annoyances therein; and for widening the paffages at the west end of Chifwell-ftreet, and at the south end of Bricklane, in the faid parifh; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 47. For granting to his Majefty a certain fum of money, to be raised by lottery.

Cap. 48. For granting to his Majesty a certain fun of money out of the finking fund; and for applying certain monies therein mentioned, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and feventy-one; and for further appropriating the fupplies granted in this feffion of parliament, for carrying to the aggregate fund a fum of money which hath arifen by the two-fevenths

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excife, and for enabling the commiffioners for executing the office of treasurer of his Majefty's exchequer, or the lord high treafurer for the time being, to pay to John Dobson, owner of the Greenland fhip Lord Molineux, the bounty due for the said ship on the last year's fishery.

Cap. 49. To continue for a further time, an act passed in the fixth year of his prefent Majefty's reign, intituled, An act to prohibit the importation of foreign-wrought filks and velvets for a limited time; and for preventing unlawful combinations of workmen. employed in the filk manufacture.

Cap. 50. For granting a bounty upon the importation of white oak ftaves, and heading, from the British colonies or plantations in America.

Cap. 51. For continuing feveral laws for the better regulation of laftage and balaftage in the river Thames; for the further punishment of perfons going armed or disguised, in defiance of the laws of customs or excife, and for the landing of rum or spirits of the British fugar plantations, before payment of the duties of excife; for repealing fo much of an act paffed in the fixth year of the reign of King George the First, intituled, An act for preventing the carriage of exceffive loads of meal, malt, bricks, and coals, within ten miles of the cities of London and Westminster, as relates to the carriage of meal, malt, and coals; and for authorifing the exportation of a limited quantity of an inferior fort of barley, called Bigg, from the port of Kirkwall, in the islands of Orkney. Cap. 52. For repairing, amending, and fupporting the seve ral harbours and fea ports in the Isle of Man.

Cap. 53. For widening the highways in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

Cap. 54. For the better paving, cleanfing, lighting, and watching Haydon Square, the New Square, Haydon-yard, Church Street, Little Church Street, otherwife the Church Paffage, Church Court, and Kenton Street, and the paffages therein, or leading thereunto, in the parish of Trinity, otherwife Holy Trinity, in the Minories, in the county of Middlesex, within the liberty of his Majefty's Tower of London; and for other purposes herein mentioned.

Cap. 55. To incapacitate John Burnett, Charles Hannington, Thomas Hafelgrove, Ralph Moor, Thomas Parfons, Thomas Snook junior, Thomas Hannington, John Hannington, John Robinson, William Cheefeman, George Browne, John Parfons, John Curl, Frederick Dean, William Dean, Samuel Tuppen, John Sawyers, Thomas Crowter, Thomas Pockney, Jofeph Dedman, John Dean, John Whiting, William Stevens, John Bawcomb, Robert Parker, John Hogsflesh, John Purfe, John Dean, Thomas Jennings, John Snook junior, Richard Tilftone, William Turner, Walter Sawyers, Charles Mitchell, John Farmand, John Wood, Friend Daniel, William Gratwick, Nathaniel Hillman, Thomas Roberts, John Afbman, William Cooter, Thomas Frost, Michael Smith, Richard Carver, Michael Durrant, Emery Churcher, Walter Broad, Richard Stonebam, James Bennett, Clement Freeman, William Jupp, Thomas

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