GEORGII III. Regis.

Being the Fifth Seffion of the Thirteenth Parliament of Great Britain.

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PUBLICK ACTS.

Cap. i.Ton of parliament, intituled, An att to continue the

continue and amend an act made in the last sef

probibition of the exportation of corn, grain, meal, flour, bread, bistuit, and ftarch; and alfo of the extraction of low wines and fpirits from wheat and wheat flour, for a further time; and also to prohibit the exportation of malt for a limited time.

Cap. 2. To continue for a further time an act made in the eighth year of his prefent Majefty's reign, intituled, An act to 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. 3. For granting an aid to his Majefty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-two.

Cap. 4. For punishing mutiny and defertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

Cap. 5. For the regulation of his Majefty's marine forces, while on thore.

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Cap. 6. For continuing and granting to his Majefty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-two.

Cap. 7. For explaining and amending an act made in the feventh year year of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for taking off the inland duty of one filling per pound weight upon all black and finglo teas confumed in Great Britain; and far granting a drawback upon the exportation of teas to Ireland, and the British dominions in America, for a limited time, upon fuch indemnification to be made in refpect thereof by the East India Company as is therein mentioned, for permitting the exportation of teas in fmaller quantities than one lot to Ireland, or the faid dominions in America; and for preventing teas feized and condemned from being confumed in Great Britain; and for fettling certain doubts and disputes which have arifen upon the said act of parliament.

Cap. 8. To explain and amend an act paffed in the tenth year of his prefent Majefty's reign, for paving, lighting, and watching the town of Plymouth, in the county of Devon, and for regulating the carmen and porters within the faid town.

Cap. 9. To enable the governor, bailiffs, and commonalty of the company of confervators of the great level of the fens, commonly called Bedford Level, to borrow upon bonds further money, upon account of the middle and fouth levels, part of the faid great level; and for establishing a further certain fund, for payment of the bonds of the faid corporation, out of the faid middle and fouth levels.

Cap. 1o. For allowing further time for inrolment of deeds and wills made by papifts; and for relief of proteftant purchasers. Cap. 11. For the better regulating the future marriages of the royal family.

Cap. 12. 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. 13. For defraying the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia in that part of Great Britain called England, for one year, beginning the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand feven hundred and feventy-two.

Cap. 14. For clearing, depthening, repairing, maintaining, and improving the haven and piers of Great Yarmouth; and for depthening, and making more navigable, the several rivers emptying themselves into the faid haven; and for preserving ships wintering therein from accidents by fire.

Cap. 15. For lighting, cleanfing, and watching, the streets, lanes, and other paffages, of the burgh of Canongate, and the liberties of Pleafance and Leith-wynd, adjoining to the royalty of the city of Edinburgh.

Cap. 16. For deepening, cleanfing, fcouring, preserving, and maintaining, the harbour of Port Glasgow, for enlarging and improving the quays and piers, for erecting new breasts, jettees, and piers; and for regulating thips, lighters, and other veffels,

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trading into and going out of the said harbour; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 17. For lighting fuch part of the town of Iflington as lies in the parish of Saint Mary, Iflington, in the county of Middlefex; and for establishing a regular nightly watch therein.

Cap. 18. For the better paving, cleanfing, lighting, and watching, the streets and lanes in the town and parish of Chatham, in the county of Kent, and for removing and preventing nuisances and annoyances therein.

Cap. 19. To enable his Majefty to grant certain houses in Fenchurch-street and Addle-freet, in the city of London, efcheated to the crown by the death of lieutenant-general John Brown, without heir, unto Frederick Montagu efquire, and his heirs, upon the trufts therein mentioned.

Cap. 20. For the more effectual proceeding against perfons ftanding mute on their arraignment for felony, or piracy.

Cap. 21. For giving relief in proceedings upon writs of Mandamus for the admiffion of freemen into corporations; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 22. For deepening, cleansing, scouring, preserving, and maintaining, the harbour of Ayr; for enlarging and improving the quays and piers; for erecting docks, breafts, jettees, and piers; and for regulating fhips, lighters, and other veffels, trading into and going out of the faid harbour; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 23. For the relief of infolvent debtors; and for indemnifying the marhal of the King's Bench prifon from profecutions at law, for certain escapes from the said prison.

Cap. 24. For the better fecuring and preferving his Majesty's dock yards, magazines, fhips, ammunition, and ftores.

Cap. 25. For the more effectual vefting in the royal hospital at Greenwich the forfeited and unclaimed fhares of naval officers, feamen, and marines, in prizes taken from the enemy; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 26. For imbanking, draining, and preferving, certain fen lands and low grounds in the parish of Ramfey, in the county of Huntingdon; and in the parishes of Doddington, March, Benwick, Wimblington, and Chatteris, within the Ifle of Ely, in the county of Cambridge; and for amending the road from a certain bridge in the parish of Chatteris aforefaid, called Carter's Bridge, by a drain called Vermuyden's, or The Forty Feet Drain, to a bridge called The Forty Feet Bridge, in the faid parish of Ramsey.

Cap. 27. To amend and render more effectual an act, made in the twenty-fecond year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An act for the more effectual draining and preferving of feveral fen lands, and field lands, in the bounds and precincts of Whittlefey, in the Ifle of Ely, in the county of Cambridge, fo far as the fame relates to the feveral fen and field lands lying in the third, fourth, and fifth diftricts, defcribed in the faid act. Cap. 28. To enlarge the cemetery or church-yard, of the parish of Watford, in the county of Hertford, and to make an

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additional building to the present workhouse, for the reception of the poor of the said parish; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 29. To explain and amend an act, paffed in the fixth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An a&t for taking down and removing certain light-houfes now fanding near the Spurn Point, at the mouth of the Humber; and for erecting other fit and convenient light-houfes inftead thereof.

Cap. 30. For the further augmentation of the falaries of the juftices of Chester, and the great feffions for the counties in Wales.

Cap. 31. To indemnify such persons as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments; and to indemnify juftices of the peace, or others, who have omitted to register of deliver in their qualifications within the time limited by law, and for giving further time for those purposes; and to indemnify members and officers, in cities, corporations, and borough towns, whofe admiffions have been omitted to be stamped according to law, or, having been stamped, have been lost or mislaid, and for allowing them time to provide admiffions duly stamped, and to give further time to fuch perfons as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and folicitors.

Cap. 32. For allowing the free importation of rice into this kingdom, from any of his Majefty's colonies in America, for a limited time.

Cap. 33. For allowing the importation of wheat, wheat flour, rye, rye meal, and Indian corn, into this kingdom, for a limited time, free of duty.

Cap. 34. To amend an act of the tenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, for building a workhouse in the parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, within the city of Westminster, in the county of Middlefex.

Cap. 35. For enabling their Majefties to enfranchise copyhold lands holden of the manor of Richmond, in the county of Surrey, and for enabling his Majesty to shut up a lane leading from Richmond Green to the river Thames, and to fell and exchange certain lands within the manors of Richmond and Wimbleton.

Cap. 36. For compleating a building intended for a new church or chapel at Richmond, near Everton, in the county palatine of Lancaster; and for other purposes.

Cap. 37. For draining and preferving certain commons, low grounds, and cars, in the parish of Market Weighton, and other adjacent parishes in the east riding of the county of York; and for making a navigable cut or canal from Market Weighton to the river Humber.

Cap. 38. For paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the fquares, ftreets, rows, lanes, alleys, and other publick paffages and places, within the parish of Christ Church, in Middlefex; and for removing nuifances and obftructions therefrom, and preventing the like for the future; and for paving and regulating fuch parts of Brick Lane as are not within the faid parish.

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Cap. 39. For raifing a certain fum of money by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hun dred and feventy-two.

Cap. 40. For amending and rendering more effectual an act, made in the tenth year of his Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for building a new parish church, and declaring the prefent parish burch a chapel; for making a cemetery or church-yard; and for building an houfe for the ufe of the minifter of the parish of Saint Mary le Bone, in the county of Middlefex.

Cap. 41. For building a bridge over the river Thames, near the town of Maidenhead, in the county of Berks.

Cap. 42. For fettling and determining what parts of the precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middlefex, fhall be under the furvey of the court of exchequer, and what parts thereof under the furvey of the duchy of Lancaster.

Cap. 43. For vefting Ely House, in Helbourn, in his Majesty, his heirs and fucceffors, and for applying the purchase-money, with another fum therein mentioned, in the purchafing of a freehold piece of ground in Dover Street, and in the building and fitting up another house thereon, for the future refidence of the bishops of Ely, and the furplus to the benefit of the fee; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 44. To enable his Majesty to grant the reversion or remainder in fee-fimple, now vested in his Majefty, of and in an annual or fee-farm rent of one hundred and thirteen pounds, one of the feveral fee-farm rents granted to the right honourable Edward, heretofore earl of Sandwich, by his late majesty King Charles the Second, unto the honourable James Archibald Stewart, and his heirs, upon a full and adequate confideration to be given by him, or his heirs, for the fame.

Cap. 45. For the better regulation of carters, carriages, and loaded horfes; and for removing obstructions and nuifances upon the streets and highways within that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

Cap. 46. For the more effectual preventing of frauds in the revenues of excife, with refpect to tea, foap, low wines, and fpirits.

Cap. 47. To continue an act, made in the fifth year of the reign of his late majefty King George the Second, intituled, An act to prevent the committing of frauds by bankrupts, and for making provifion for difcharging bankrupts, in certain cafes, from their imprisonment.

Cap. 48. For the more effectual preventing of frauds in the stamp duties, upon vellum, parchment, paper, and cards.

Cap. 49. To explain and amend an act, made in the feventh year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for altering the ftamp-duties upon policies of affurance; and for reducing the allowance to be made in respect of the prompt payment of the flampduties on licences for retailing beer, ale, and other excifeable liquors and for explaining and amending several acts of parliament relating to

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