Imágenes de páginas
PDF
EPUB
[ocr errors]

Horton, and the other through Bowling and Wibfey) to the town of Halifax in the fame riding. Cap. 33. To fupply fome defects in the laws for repairing and rebuilding county bridges, for repairing, enlarging, erecting, and providing houfes of correction, and for paffing rogues and vagabonds. Cap. 34. To continue an act for relief of debtors with respect to the imprisonment of their perfons, and two fubfequent acts for explaining and amending the fame; and alfo to continue an act for the free importation of cochineal and indico. Cap. 35. For continuing an act paffed in the feventh year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, To explain and amend a former act paffed in the eleventh year of the reign of his late majesty King George the First, For the better regulating the manufacture of cloth in the weft riding of the county of York, and for making the faid acts more effectual. Cap. 36. For opening a trade to and from Perfia through Ruffia. Cap. 37. For restraining and preventing feveral unwarrantable schemes and undertakings in his Majefty's colonies and plantations in America. Cap. 38. For the encouragement and increase of seamen, and for the better and speedier manning his Majefty's fleet.

Cap. 39. For furveying the chief ports and head lands on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, and the islands and plantations thereto belonging in order to the more exact determination of the longitude and latitude thereof.

Cap. 40. To enable the commiffioners for building a bridge cross the river Thames, from the city of Weftminster, to the oppofite fhore in the county of Surrey, to raise a further fum of money towards finishing the faid bridge, and to perform the other trufts repofed in them, and

for exchanging of tickets unclaimed in the Westminster bridge lottery of the twelfth year of his prefent Majefty's reign, and for making provifion for tickets in the faid lottery, loft, burnt, or otherwise destroyed. Cap. 41. For granting to his Majefty the fum of one million of the finking fund, and for applying other fums therein mentioned, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and forty one; and for allowing a drawback of the duties upon coals ufed in fire engines for draining tin and copper mines in the county of Cornwall, and for appropriating the fupplies granted in this feffion of parliament; and for making forth duplicates of ex- chequer bills, lottery tickets, and orders, loft, burnt, or otherwife deftroyed; and for giving further time for the payment of duties omitted to be paid for the indentures and contracts of clerks and apprentices.

[ocr errors]

Cap. 42. For the prefervation of the publick roads in that part of Great Britain called England.

Cap. 43. To enable Thomas Smith efquire, lord of the manor of Farlington, in the county of Southampton, to supply the town of Portmouth, and parts adjacent, with good and wholfome water, at his own proper costs and charges. Private Alls.

Anno 14 Georgii II.

1. An act for naturalizing John De Pefters, efq;

2. An act for enabling Robert duke

3.

of Manchefter to make a jointure on his prefent dutchefs, and to make leafes of certain parts of his eftate, and for other purposes there in mentioned.

An act for vefting the feat and e ftates of Nicholas late earl of Scarf dale, deccated, in the feveral coun

ties of Derby and Nottingham, comprized in his fettlement and will, and the furniture there at his death, in trustees, to be fold for speedier. payment of his debts, and preferving the furplus, to go according to his faid fettlement and will. 4. An act for vefting in William Wildman, lord viscount Barrington in the kingdom of Ireland, for life, certain meffuages and tenements in the city of London, late the estate of Mary lady viscountess Barrington, his wife, upon the terms mentioned in their marriage fettlement. 5. An act for enabling Sir John Jennings, and George Jennings efq; his fon (a minor) to convey certain eftates in Surrey and Hertfordshire, for the benefit of the faid George Jennings, and fuch wife as he fhall marry, and the iffue of fuch marriage.,

6. An act for vefting part of the tithes of Ryegate, in the county of Surrey, in Robert Scawen, efq; and his heirs, and for fettling another eftate to the ufes limited of the faid tithes by the will of Sir William Scarven knt. deceased.

7. An act for vefting the freehold and leasehold estates late of Thomas Lewis of Soberton efq; deceased, in trustees, to be fold for raifing money to discharge his debts and legacies. 8. An act for vefting certain manors, lands, and tenements of William Hudlefton efq; in trustees, to be fold for payment of his debts.

9. An act for fale of the eftate of John Neale efq; in the county of Bucks, and for fettling another estate in the county of Warwick, in lieu thereof.

10. An act for vefting the fettled eftate of Thomas Western efq; in the county of Buckingham, in him and his heirs, and for fettling another eftate in the county of Cambridge, of greater value, to the ufes of his marriage fettlement, and alfo for

[ocr errors]

rendering a power of revocation,
contained in that fettlement, more
effectual for the purposes thereby
intended,

1. An act for dividing and inclofing
feveral open fields, paftures, and
commons, in the townships of
Great Driffield and Little Driffield
in the county of York, and for fet-
tling certain yearly payments to the
prebendary of Driffield for the time
being, in lieu of his tithes, purfu
ant to an agreement and an award
made for thofe purposes.

12. An act for confirming and esta-
blishing articles of agreement, and
an award, for dividing and inclof-
ing certain common fields, and a
common called Chawton Common,
in the parith of Chawton in the
county of Southampton.

13. An act for dividing and inclofing
the common fields, lying in the
manor and parish of Sherfton Magna
in the county of Wilts.

14. An act for inclosing and dividing
the common fields, common pas-
tures, common meadows, and
wafte grounds, in the manor and
parish of Brinklow in the county of
Warwick.

15. An act to enable John Rice, and

his heirs, to take and use the fur-
name of Tutt, pursuant to the will
of John Tutt gentleman, deceafed.
16. An act for enabling Edward Bur-
naby, an infant, and the heirs male
of his body, to take the furname of
Greene, pursuant to the will of Tho-
mas Greene efquire, deceased, and
for other purposes therein men-
tioned.

17. An act to enable Francis Thifile-
waite efquire, and the heirs male of
his body, to take and use the fur-
name of Whithed, pursuant to the
will and codicil of Richard Whithed
efquire, deceased.

18. An act for vefting part of the set

tled eftate of Thomas Edmunds e-
fquire, in trustees, to be fold for

rai

1

raifing money to discharge the 'debts of himself and his late father deceased, and for fettling another eftate of greater value in lieu thereof. 19. An act for naturalizing John Richard Brinkman efquire.

20. An act for naturalizing Martin

Kuyck Van Mierop.

21. An act for naturalizing Gedeon Bourdillon, John David Billon, and Matthew Houfeman.

22. An act for naturalizing Eve Superiori, alias Smith.

23. An act for naturalizing Erneft Barnerd.

24. An act for naturalizing Everard John Ludewig.

25. An act for establishing and confirming a partition agreed to be made, between Henry duke of Beaufort, and William duke of Portland, of the feveral manors, meffuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in the counties of Sounthampton and Wilts, whereof they are feized as tenants in common; and for fettling their fpecifick fhares and allotments to fuch uses as their undivided moieties thereof now stand limited; and for other purposes therein mentioned. 26. An act to enable William earl of Strafford, an infant of about the age of nineteen years, to make a fettlement of his eftate upon his marriage with the lady Anne Campbell. 27. An act for explaining and making more effectual an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for difcharging part of the fettled eftate of William earl Cowper in the coun

ty of Hertford, from the ufes and limitations of a former fettlement, and for fettling and fecuring an equivalent for the fame, to the like ufes.

28. An act for enabling the right honourable Charles earl of Arran, to raise money by fale or mortgage of part of his eftate in the kingdom of Ireland, for payment of debts, and for other purposes.

29. An act to enable George viscount of Garnock, or the fucceeding heirs of entail, to fell lands in the counties of Dunbarton and Air, for payment of debts charged thereupon, and to purchase other lands, to be fettled to the fame uses as the estate

to be fold is settled.

30. An act for vacating a term of one hundred years, in a voluntary fettlement made by Sir Hugh Clopton, knight, and for creating a new term of one thousand years, in lieu thereof, for the purposes therein mentioned.

31. An act for vefting part of the eftate of Francis Pembertom efquire, in the county of Cambridge, in truftees, to be fold for difcharging the incumbrances thereon; and for settling another part of his eftate to the uses and for the purposes of his marriage settlement.

32. An act for impowering Gwyn Vaughan efquire, and his wife, and their fons, to make leases of the manor of Kingston Seymour in the county of Somerset, for years determinable on deaths,according to the ufage of the country. 33. An act for naturalizing Francis

D' Abbadie.

The END of the TABLE.

THE

STATUTES at Large, &c.

Anno nono GEORGII II. Regis.

T the parliament begun and holden at Weft

Anno regni

&c. Nono,

A miniter, the (a) fourteenth day of January, (a) In Recorde Anno Dom. 1734, in the eighth year of the reign of XV xv die Januar. our fovereign Lord George the Second, by the grace fereniffimi, of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, continuat. ufKing, defender of the faith, &c. And from thence que ad et in continued by feveral prorogations to the fifteenth day Januar. anno of January, 1735. Being the fecond feffion of this regni, &c. prefent parliament.

CAP. I.

An act for continuing the duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry in that part of Great Britain called England; and for granting to his Majesty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and thirty fix. EXP.

CAP. II.

An act to punish mutiny and desertion, and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. EXP.

CA P. III.

An act for granting an aid to his Majesty by a land tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and thirty fix. EXP. 2 s. in the pound.

CAP. IV.

An alt to amend an act paffed in the feventh year of the reign of his late majesty King George the First, intituled, An act to preferve and encourage the woollen and filk manufactures of this kingdom, and for more effectual employing the poor, by prohibiting the use and wear of all printed, painted, ftained, or dyed callicoes, in apparel, houfhold ftuff, furniture, or otherwise, after the twenty fifth day of December, one thoufand feven hundred and twenty two (except as is therein excepted) fo far as relates to goods made of linen yarn, and cotton wooll, manufactured in Great Britain.

xxi diem

decimo.

[blocks in formation]

to

WH
HEREAS by an act passed in the feventh year of the reign
of his late majefly King George the First, intituled, An act
VOL. XVII.

B

to preferve and encourage the woollen and filk manufactures of this kingdom, and for more effectual employing the poor, by prohibiting the use and wear of all printed, painted, ftained, or dyed callicoes, in apparel, houshold ftuff, furniture, or otherwife, after the twenty fifth day of December, one thousand feven hundred and twenty two (except as is therein excepted) it is enacted, That the prohibition of callicoes intended by the said act, and the penalties thereby inflicted, for wearing or using printed, painted, stained, or dyed callicoes, in apparel, houshold stuff, or furniture, after the twenty fifth day of December, one thousand feven hundred and twenty two, contrary to the faid act, should respectively extend to prohibit, and fhould be levied and recovered for, wearing or ufing in apparel, houfbold ftuff, or furniture, after the faid twenty fifth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and twenty two, any fluff made with cotton, or mixed therewith, which should be printed or painted with any colour or colours, or any callicoe chequered or ftriped, or any callicoe ftitched or flowered in foreign parts with any colour or colours, or with coloured flowers made there (muflins, neckcloths, and fuftians excepted) in fuch manner as the penalties inflicted by the faid act, for wearing or using printed, painted, Stained, or dyed callicoes, in apparel, boufbold fluff, or furniture, after the faid twenty fifth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and twenty two, contrary to the faid act, are to be levied or recovered, but under fuch limitations, and with fuch liberties, privileges, and advantages, as are mentioned and expreffed in the faid act, or in any other act or acts of parliament then in force relating thereto, or relating to printed, painted, stained, or dyed callicoes: and whereas great quanties of stuffs made of linen yarn and cotton wooll have for feveral years past been manufactured, and have been printed and painted, within this kingdom of Great Britain, and the faid manufactures fo printed or painted are a branch of the ancient fuftian manufacture of this kingdom, and have been and are now used and worn in apparel and furniture: and whereas fome doubts have lately arifin, whether the use and wearing of the said stuffs, when the fame are fo printed or painted, be prohibited by the faid recited act, whereby the faid manufacture is difcouraged, and may be utterly loft, and great numbers of his Majesty's fubjects and their families, whofe livelihoods intirely depend thereupon, may be ruined, and the poor greatly increased, if not timely prevented: for remedy whereof be it enacted by the King's moft excellent Majefty, by and Stuff made of with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the wooll, manu- authority of the fame, That nothing in the faid recited act shall factured in extend or be conftrued to prohibit the wearing or ufing in apif the warp be parel, houshold stuff, furniture, or otherwife, any fort of stuff intirely linen, made of linen yarn and cotton wooll manufactured and printed may be worn, or painted with any colour or colours within the kingdom of notwithstand Great Britain, provided that the warp thereof be intirely linen ing the faid yarn; and that no perfon fhall incur, or be deemed, or adact. judged, or taken to incur, any penalty or forfeiture whatsoever for wearing or ufing fuch manufacture fo printed or painted, as

linen yarn,

and cotton

Great Britain,

aforefaid;

« AnteriorContinuar »