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TABLE of the STATUTES,

Containing the Titles of all fuch Acts as are extant in print, from the Twenty Sixth to the Twenty Ninth Year of King GEORGE II. inclufive.

Cap. I.

Anno 26 Georgii II.

OR continuing and grant

F% ing to his Majefty cer

tain duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty three; and for enlarging the time limited by an act of the laft feffion of parliament, for fubfcribing annuities, after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, into the joint ftock of annuities therein mentioned.

Cap. 2. To amend an act made in the eighth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the First, intituled, An act for the better recovery of the penalties inflicted upon perfons who deftroy the game, by enlarging the time within which fuits and actions are to be brought by force of the said act.

Cap. 3. For continuing the duties upon falt, and upon red and white herrings, for the purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 4. For granting an aid to his Majefty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and fifty three. Cap. 5. For punishing mutiny and

defertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quar

ters.

Cap. 6. To oblige fhips more effectually to perform their quarentine; and for the better preventing the plague being brought from foreign VOL. XXI.

parts into Great Britain or Ireland, or the ifles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man.

Cap. 7. For the more eafy and speedy recovery of small debts within the borough of Boston, and Skirbeck Quarter, and the parishes of Boston and Skirbeck, in the county of Lincoln.

Cap. 8. For opening the port of Exe

ter for the importation of wool, and woollen yarn, from Ireland. Cap. 9. To explain, amend, and render more effectual, an act made in. the twenty third year of the reign of his present Majefty, intituled, An act for the encouragement of the British white herring fishery; and for regulating the faid fishery according to the calendar now in use, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

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Cap. 10. For enlarging the time, and continuing the duties granted by feveral acts of parliament for repairs of the piers of Bridlington, alias Burlington, in the county of York; and for making the said acts more effectual.

Cap. 11. For permitting the expor-tation of wool, and woollen or bay yarn, from any port in Ireland, to any port in Great Britain. Cap. 12. To prevent wines imported into any of the out-ports of this kingdom, being afterwards brought into the port of London, or parts adjacent, without paying the London duty.

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Cap. 13.

Cap. 13. For the more effectually

preventing the fraudulent removal of tobacco by land or water, and for the ease of the fair trader in tobacco; and for ascertaining the rates payable for the portage of certain letters; and for amending and explaining the laws relating to the fale of fpirituous liquors by retail. Cap. 14. For the fettling and afcer-' taining the fees to be taken by clerks to justices of the peace. Cap. 15. For allowing intereft upon certain debentures for the bounty granted on the exportation of corn. Cap. 16. For reducing the number of directors of the corporation of the governor and company of merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas, and other parts of America; and for encouraging the fishery; and for regulating the election of the governors and directors of the faid company. Cap. 17. For the more effectual leIvying of the duties upon windows or lights, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland

Cap. 18. For enlarging and regulat

ing the trade into the Levant feas. Cap. 19. For enforcing the laws against perfons who shall steal or detain hipwrecked goods; and for the relief of perfons fuffering loffes thereby.

Cap, 20. For encouraging and im-
proving the manufactory of linen
in the highlands of Scotland.
Cap. 21. For encouraging the filk
manufactures of this kingdom; and
for fecuring the duties payable up-
on the importation of velvets,
wrought filks, and filks mixed
with other materials, not manu-
factured in Great Britain.
Cap, 22. For the purchase of the
Muftum, or collection of Sir Hans
Sloane, and of the Harleian collec-
tion of manufcripts; and for pro-
viding one general repository for
the better reception and more con-

venient use of the faid collections, and of the Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto. Cap. 23. For granting to his Majesty a certain fum of money therein mentioned out of the finking fund; and for applying certain furplus monies remaining in the exchequer, for the fervice of the year one thoufand feven hundred and fifty three; and for the further appropriating the fupplies granted in this feffion of parliament; and for enlarging the time limited by an act of the laft feffion of párliament, for fubfcribing annuities after the rate of three pounds per centum per annum, and three pounds ten fhillings per centum per annum, into the joint ftock of annuities; and for other purposes therein mentioned. Cap. 24. For allowing further time for inrolment of deeds and wills made by papifts; and for relief of proteftant purchasers, devifees, and leffees.

Cap. 25. To render more effectual
an act made in the twelfth year of
the reign of her late majefty Queen
Anne, intituled, An alt for provid-
ing a publick reward for fuch perfon
or perfons as shall discover the longi-
tude at fea, with regard to the mak-
ing experiments of propofals made
for difcovering the longitude; and
to enlarge the number of commif-
fioners for putting in execution the
faid act..

Cap. 26. To permit perfons profef-
fing the Jewish religion, to be na-
turalized, by parliament; and for
other purposes therein mentioned.
Cap. 27. To confirm certain acts and
orders made by juftices of the peace
being of the quorum, notwithstand-
ing any defect in not expreffing
therein, that fuch juftices of the
peace are of the quorum.
Cap. 28. For the preventing of the
inconveniencies and dangers that
may arife from the prefent methods

of digging gravel, fand, ftone, chalk, and other materials, on the feveral commons and waste grounds within this kingdom, for the repair of the highways, and for other purposes.

Cap. 29. To explain, amend and continue, the provifions made by two acts of parliament of the nineteenth and twenty first years of his Majefty's reign, for the more effectual difarming the highlands in Scotland, and to make provifion for the more Speedy afcertaining the lawful debts or claims upon the lands and hereditaments that fome time belonged to Alexander Robertfon of Strowan, which, with other forfeited eftates, are, by an act of the twenty fifth year of his Majefty's reign, annexed to the crown unalienable.

Cap. 30. For the amendment and

prefervation of the publick highways and turnpike roads of this kingdom, and for the more effectual execution of the laws relating thereto.

Cap. 31. For regulating the manner of licenfing alehouses in that part of Great Britain called England; and for the more eafy convicting perfons felling ale, and other liquors, without licence. Cap. 32. For continuing feveral laws relating to the punishment of perfons going armed or difguifed, in defiance of the laws of customs or excife; to the drawback of the duties upon copper bars exported; and to the duties upon foreignmade fail cloth; and alfo for encouragement of the filk manufactures; and for taking off feveral duties on merchandizes exported; and for encouraging the trade of the fugar colonies in America; and for vacating the fecurity for the duty on falt loft in any river, or in port, after shipped, and for enlarging the time for proving the lofs of falt; and for relief of mafters of

fhips with respect to the importation of foap and candles, contrary to an act made in the twenty third year of his Majefty's reign; and alfo for the more effectual payment of the bounties upon British-made fail cloth; and to impower the commiffioners of the treasury to direct the payment of the bounty to John Henniker, and others, upon four fhips fitted out for the whale fishery, and loft in the Greenland feas, and alfo to Philip How, and others, upon two fhips employed in the faid fishery, notwithstanding some of the forms required by law in fitting out fuch ships were not complied with. Cap. 33. For the better preventing of clandeftine marriages.

Cap. 34. To explain, amend, and continue feveral laws more effectually to prevent the spreading of the distemper which now rages amongst the horned cattle in this kingdom; for the more effectual paying the expences of paffing vagrants; for obviating doubts that may arife touching the keeping of prisoners until the prison of the marfhalfea of the court of King's Bench fhall be rebuilt or repaired; and for amending fo much of the act of the twenty fourth of his prefent Majefty, for regulating the commencement of the year, and for correcting the ca lendar now in ufe, as relates to the time of electing publick officers of the city of Chefter.

Cap. 35. For confirming an agree

ment entered into between the company of proprietors of the undertaking for recovering and preferving the navigation of the river Dee, and Sir John Glynne baronet, lord of the manor of Hawarden, and several freeholders and occupiers of land within the faid manor; and for explaining and amending three feveral acts of parliament of the fixth, fourteenth,

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and feventeenth years of his prefent Majefty's reign, for recovering and preferving the navigation of the faid river Dee.

Cap. 36. For erecting several publick buildings in the city of Edinburgh, and to impower the trustees therein mentioned, to purchafe lands for that purpofe; and alfo for widening and enlarging the streets of the city, and certain avenues leading thereunto.

Cap. 37. For repairing the road lead-
ing from the town of Penrith in
the county of Cumberland, by Hut-
ton Hall, over Skelton and Caftle-
fowerby Paftures, and Sebraham
Bridge, to Chalkbeck in the faid
county; and alfo the road which
branches and feparates from the
fame road upon Castlefowerby Pa-
flure aforefaid, and leads from
thence through Hefket, otherwise
Hefket New Market, to Caldbeck in
the faid county.

Cap. 38. To enable the parishioners
of the parish of Stone, in the coun-
ty of Stafford, to rebuild the
church of the faid parish.
Cap. 39. For repairing and widening
feveral roads leading from the town
of Bewdley, in the county of Wor-
cefter, to the feveral places therein
mentioned, in the counties of
Worcester and Salop respectively.
Cap 40. For repairing the roads

from the city of Carlisle, to the
town of Penrith in the county of
Cumberland, and from the faid town
of Penrith, to Emont Bridge, which
divides the counties of Cumberland
and Veltmorland.

Cap. 41. For continuing and making more effectual three acts of parliament, paffed in the ninth and twelfth years of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, and the fifth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, for repairing the highways between Dunstable and Hockliffe, in the county of Bedford; and alfo

for repairing the road from the fign of the White Horfe to the fign of the King's Arms in Hockliffe aforefaid:

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Cap. 42. For repairing and widening
the road from the weft end of Seend
Street, in the county of Wilts, to
the Horfe and Jockey, in the parish
of Box, in the faid county.
Cap. 43. For enlarging the church-
yard of the parish of Paddington, in
the county of Middlefex.
Cap. 44. For laying a duty of two
pennies Scots, or one fixth part of
a penny fterling, on every Scots
pint of ale and beer which thall be
brewed for fale, brought into, tap-
ped or fold, within the town of
Dyfart, and liberties thereof, and
all places adjacent, lying within
three hundred yards of the boun-
daries of the faid liberties, for re-
pairing, improving, and preferving
the harbour of the faid town.
Cap. 45. For building a new church

within the town of Manchefter, in
the county palatine of Lancafler.
Cap. 46. For repairing the road from
the borough of Leicefler, in the
county of Leicester, to the town of
Afbby de la Zouch in the faid county.
Cap. 47. For repairing and widening
feveral roads leading from the mar-
ket houfe in Stourbridge, and other
roads therein mentioned, in the
counties of Worcester, Stafford, Sa-
lop, and Warwick respectively.
Cap. 48. For enlarging the term and
powers granted by an act paffed in
the twentieth year of the reign of
his prefent Majefty, for repairing
the high road leading from the city
of Durham, in the county of Dur-
ham, to Tyne Bridge in the faid'
county.

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Cap. 49. For repairing the road from the city of Cay life, in the county of Cumberland, to the market and feaport town of Workington in the faid county,

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Cap. 50. For repairing and widening

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