Cap. 5. For the further relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their perfons; and to oblige debtors, who fhall continue in execution in prifon beyond a certain time, and for fums not exceeding what are mentioned in the act, to make discovery of, and deliver, upon oath, their eftates for their creditors benefit. Cap. 6. For the regulation of his Majefty's marine forces while on shore. Cap. 7. 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 ninety-three. Cap. 8. To provide for the families of perfons chosen by lot to serve in the militia of this kingdom, and of fubftitutes ferving therein; and to explain and amend an act of parliament passed in the twenty-fixth year of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for amending, and reducing into one act of parliament, the laws relating to the militia, in that part of Great Britain called England. Cap. 9. For punishing mutiny and defertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. Cap. 10. To continue the laws now in force for regulating the trade between the fubjects of his Majefty's dominions and the inhabitants of the territories belonging to the united states of America, so far as the fame relate to the trade and commerce carried on between this kingdom and the inhabitants of the countries belonging to the faid united states. Cap. 11. 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 ninety-three. Cap. 12. To indemnify fuch perfons as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments; and to indemnify juftices of the peace, or others, who have omitted to register or deliver in their qualifications within the time limited by law, and for giving further time for thofe 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 ftamped, have been loft or mislaid; and for allowing them time to provide admiffions duly ftamped; 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; for indemnifying deputy lieutenants and officers of the militia, who have neglected to tranfmit defcriptions of their qualifications to the clerks of the peace within the time limited by law; and for giving further time for that purpose. Cap. 13. To prevent acts of parliament from taking effect from a time prior to the paffing thereof. Cap. 14. To enable the royal exchange affurance companies, and their fucceffors, to grant, purchase, and fell annuities upon or for lives. Cap. 15. To enable the governor and company of the bank of of England to purchafe certain houfes and ground contiguous to the bank of England. Cap. 16. For effectually carrying into execution an act of parliament of the eighteenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, for making a navigable canal from the town of Balingtoke, in the county of Southampton, to communicate with the river W ey, in the parish of Chertsey, in the county of Surrey, and to the fouth-east fide of the turnpike road, in the parish of Turgifs, in the faid county of Southampton. Cap. 17. For raifing a certain fum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the fervice of the year one thoufand feven hundred and ninety-three. Cap. 18. For raifing a further fum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. Cap. 19. 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 seven hundred and ninety-three; and for making provision for adjutants who have served a certain time in the militia. Cap. 20. For effectually carrying into execution an act of parliament of the thirtieth year of his prefent Majefty, for making and maintaining a navigable communication between Stowmarket and Ipfwich, in the county of Suffolk. Cap. 21. To enable the company of proprietors of the canal navigation from Manchester to or near Ahton under Lyne and Oldham, to extend the faid canal from a place called Clayton Demefne, in the township of Droylsden, in the parish of Manchester aforefaid, to a place in the turnpike road in Heaton Norris, leading between Manchefler and Stockport, oppofite to the houfe known by the fign of The Three Boars Heads; and from or nearly from a place called Taylor's Barn, in the township of Reddish, to Denton, at a place called Beat Bank, adjoining the turnpike road leading between Stockport and Aften under Lyne; and alfo from the intended aqueduct bridge, at or near a place called Water-boufes, in the parish of Afhton under Lyne aforefaid, to a place called Stake Leach, at Hollinwood, in the township of Oldham aforefaid. Cap. 22. For granting to his Majefty the fum of two hundred thousand pounds, to be iffued and paid to the governor and company of the bank of England, to be by them placed to the account of the commiffioners for the reduction of the national debt. Cap. 23. For altering the provifions of an act, paffed in the twenty-second year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, for repealing the duties payable for beer and ale above fix fillings the barrel, exclufive of the duties of excife, and not exceeding eleven fillings the barrel, exclufive of fuch duties, and for other purposes therein mentioned, fo far as refpects the quality of table beer brewed by common brewers. Cap. 24. For feparating the chapels of Chorley and Rufford from the parish of Crofton, in the county of Lancaster, and for making them two distinct parish churches. Cap. 25. For paving the footpaths, within the borough of Ludlow, in the county of Salop; and for lighting, watching, and otherwise improving, the faid borough. Cap. 26. For the better fupply of mariners and seamen to ferve in his Majesty's fhips of war, and on board merchant fhips, and other trading ships and vessels, during the prefent war. Cap. 27. More effectually to prevent, during the prefent war between Great Britain and France, all traitorous correfpondence with, or aid or affiftance being given to, his Majefty's enemies. Cap. 28. For raising a certain fum of money, by way of annuities, to be charged on the confolidated fund; and for making perpetual certain duties of excife on British spirits, and certain duties on the amount of affeffed taxes. Cap. 29. For enabling his Majesty to direct the iffue of exchequer bills, to a limited amount, for the purposes and in the manner therein mentioned. Cap. 30. For the better preventing forgeries and frauds in the transfers of the feveral funds transferrable at the bank of England. Cap. 31. To enable the common council of the town of Liverped, in the county of Lancaster, on behalf and account of the corporation of the faid town, to iffue negociable notes for a limited time, and to a limited amount. Cap. 32. For enabling his Majefty to raife the fum of one million five hundred thousand pounds for the ufes and purpofes therein mentioned; and for providing that the governor and company of the bank of England fhall not be fubject to any pemalties, by reafon of an act made in the fifth year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, on account of their advancing money for the payment of bills of exchange accepted by, or by the direction of the commiffioners of his Majefty's treafury, and made payable at the bank of England. Cap. 33. For repealing part of an act, paffed in the first year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An act for preventing frauds in the duties upon falt, and for the better payment of debentures at the custom houfe, which may relate to the refining and making of falt at certain works intended to be erected at Garflon, in the county palatine of Lancaster, instead of the prefent falt works at Liverpool. Cap. 34. For the relief of the captors of prizes, with refpect to the bringing and landing certain prize goods in this kingdom. Cap. 35. To explain and amend an act, paffed in the twentyfecond year of the reign of his prefent Majesty, for the better reLief and employment of the poor. Cap. 36. To eftablish certain regulations refpecting officers ferving in feveral corps of fencible men, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and in certain other corps which may be directed to be raised in Great Britain. Cap. 37. To amend an act, made in the thirty-first year of the the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An act for the due making of bread, and to regulate the price and afsize thereof; and to punish persons who shall adulterate meal, flour, or bread, with refpect to the time within which certain profecutions directed by the faid act are to be brought. Cap. 38. For making and maintaining a navigable canal from or nearly from a place called The Saltisford, in the parish of Saint Mary, in the borough of Warwick, unto or near to the parith of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, and to terminate at or near to a certain navigable canal in or near to the town of Birmingham, called the Digbeth branch of the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley canal navigations. Cap. 39. For the more eafy raising money upon the hundred of Hemlingford, in the county of Warwick, for paying the damages and cofts incurred on account of the late riots within the faid hundred, than is authorised to be done by the laws now in being. Cap. 40. To continue feveral laws, relating to the landing rum or fpirits of the British fugar plantations before payment of the duties of excife; to the giving further encouragement to the importation of naval ftores from the British colonies in America; to the granting liberty to carry fugars of the growth, produce, or manufacture of any of his Majefty's fugar colonies directly to foreign parts, in fhips built in Great Britain and navigated according to law; to the permitting the exportation of tobacco pipe clay from this kingdom to the British fugar colonies or plantations in the West Indies; to the granting a bounty on certain (pecies of British and Irijh linens exported, and taking off the duties on the importation of foreign raw linen yarns. made of flax; to the prohibiting the exportation of tools and utenfils made ufe of in the iron and steel manufactures of this kingdom, and to prevent the feducing of artificers and workmen, employed in those manufactures, to go into parts beyond the feas; to the afcertaining the ftrength of fpirits by Clarke's hydrometer; and to revive and continue an act, made in the twenty-third year of his present Majefty's reign, for the more effectual encouragement of the manufactures of flax and cotton in Great Britain. Cap. 41. To enable Robert Claxton of Bristol, merchant, to take the oath prescribed and directed to be taken by an act of the twenty-fixth year of his prefent Majefty, for the further encrease and encouragement of shipping and navigation. Cap. 42. For incorporating the company of free fifthers and dredgers of Whitflable, in the county of Kent, and for the better ordering and government of the fithery. Cap. 43. For enlarging the powers of and rendering more effectual an act, made in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for rebuilding the parish church of Paddington in the county of Middlelex, and for enlarging the church yard of the faid parish. Cap. 44. For requiring a certain form of oath of abjuration, and 1 and declaration, from his Majesty's fubjects, profeffing the Ro Cap. 45. For taking down and rebuilding the tower of the parith church of Hanbury, in the county of Worcester, and for repairing the faid church, and rendering the fame more commodious for the parishioners. Cap. 46. For vefting in his Majefty certain forfeited eftates. in Ireland, fubject to the difpofition of the parliament of Ireland. Cap. 47. For placing the stock called Eaft India Annuities under the management of the governor and company of the bank of England, and ingrafting the fame on the three pounds per centum reduced annuities, in redemption of a debt of four millions two hundred thousand pounds, owing by the publick to the East India company; and for enabling the faid company to raife a fum of money, by a further increafe of their capital ftock, to be applied in difcharge of certain debts of the faid company. Cap. 48. To allow the drawback of the duties of cuftoms and excise upon wines confumed by admirals, captains, and other commiffioned officers, on board thips of war in actual fervice, and to allow fuch thips to be fupplied with tobacco, duty-free. Cap. 49. For further continuing and amending an act made in the ninth year of the reign of his late majefty King George the Second, intituled, An act for further encouraging and regulating the manufacture of British fail cloth, and for the more effectual fecuring the duties now payable on foreign fail cloth imported into this kingdom. Cap. 50. To amend an act, paffed in the twenty-feventh year of his prefent Majesty's reign, for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods, wares, and merchandize, in foreign fhips, into and from certain ports and places in the West Indies; and for amending fo much of an act, made in the thirtysecond year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, as relates to permitting the importation of fugar into the Babama and Bermuda islands in foreign fhips; and fo much of two acts, made in the twenty-eighth and thirty-first years of his present Majesty's reign, as prohibits the importation of timber into any illand under the dominion of his Majefty in the West Indies from any foreign colony or plantation in the West Indies or South America; and fo much of the faid act, made in the twentyeighth year of his present Majesty's reign, as prohibits the importation of pitch, tar, and turpentine into Nova Scotia or New Brunswick from any country belonging to the united states of ·America. Cap. 51. For rendering more effectual an act of the present feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for enabling his Majefly to direct the illue of exchequer bills to a limited amount, for the purpojes and in the manner therein mentioned. Cap. 52. For continuing in the Eaft India company, for a further term, the poffeffion of the British territories in India, together 1 |