Parliament, Two Acts of the Fifty fourth Year of His late Majesty, for the more effectual Administration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace in and near the Metropolis, and for the Prevention of Depredations on the River Thames. Page 251 67. An Act to continue, until the First Day of August One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, the Low Duties on Coals and Culm carried coastwise to any Port within the Principality of Wales. Ibid. 68. An Act for the better Administration of Justice in the Court of Exchequer Chamber in Ireland. 252

69. An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the Fifty sixth Year of His late Majesty, for erecting a Harbour for Ships to the Eastward of Dunleary, within the Port of Dublin; and to provide for the Erection of a Western Pier to the said Harbour of Dunleary.

256

70. An Act for improving the Roads between London and Chirk, in the County of Denbigh, by Coventry, Birmingham and Shrewsbury.

263

71. An Act to enlarge the Time and Powers for carrying the New Street Act into Execution; and to extend the Provisions of an Act, for ratifying an Agreement made with Lord Gage, and for the better Management and Improvement of the Land Revenues of the Crown.

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72. An Act for granting to His Majesty a Sum of Money to be raised by Lotteries.

281

73. An Act to extend the Period allowed to Persons compounding for their Assessed Taxes, and to give further Relief in certain cases therein mentioned.

285

74. An Act to grant certain Duties in Scotland upon Wash and Spirits made from Corn or Grain, and upon Licences for making and keeping of Stills; and to consolidate and amend the Laws for the Distillation of such Spirits for Home Consumption; and for better preventing private Distillation in Scotland. 75. An Act for charging a Duty of Excise on certain Sorts of unmanufactured Tobacco imported into Great Britain from the Place of its Growth.

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352

76. An Act to repeal so much of an Act of the Fifty seventh Year of His late Majesty, as prohibits the Sale in England of any Spirits not being Spirits of Wine, British Brandy, British Gin, or Compounds.

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77. An Act to continue, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty five, several Acts for regulating the Trade in Spirits between Great Britain and Ireland reciprocally, to consolidate the countervailing Excise Duties payable on the Importation of Irish Spirits into Great Britain, and to amend the countervailing Excise Duties paid on the Importation of Irish Spirits from Scotland.

355

78. An Act to reduce the Duties payable upon Licences for the Sale of Spirituous and other Liquors by Retail in certain Cities, Towns and Places in Ireland; and to amend the several Acts for securing the Payment of the Duties of Excise upon certain Licences in Ireland; and also to amend the Laws relating to Licensed Brewers in Ireland. 358

79. An Act for making Allowances to licensed Brewers in Ireland,

on

on account of the additional Duty on Malt, used by them within a certain Period.

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364

80. An Act allowing Importers of Sugar in Ireland to give Certificates for Sugar sold by them, in lieu of Permits. 81. An Act to amend several Acts made in the Fifty seventh and Fifty eighth Years of His late Majesty, for the Advance of Money for carrying on Public Works, and for other Purposes, so far as the said Acts relate to Ireland.

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82. An Act to amend an Act of the Fifty ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for the Encouragement and Improvement of the Irish Fisheries.

371

83. An Act to amend Two Acts of the Fifty seventh and Fifty eighth Years of His late Majesty, for the Encouragement of Banks for Savings in England. 379 84. An Act to regulate the Payment of Army Prize Money. 387 85. An Act to make further Provisions respecting Naval Prize Money.

388

86. An Act to defray the Charge of the Pay, Clothing, and contingent Expenses of the Disembodied Militia in Great Britain; and to grant Allowances in certain Cases to Subaltern Officers, Adjutants, Quartermasters, Surgeons, Surgeons' Mates and Serjeant Majors of Militia, until the Twenty fifth Day of March One thousand eight hundred and twenty one. 391 87. An Act for enabling Landlords more speedily to recover Possession of Lands and Tenements unlawfully held over by Tenants.

393

88. An Act to continue, until the Thirty first Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty four, an Act of the Fifty seventh Year of His late Majesty, for letting to farm the Post Horse Duties, and to amend the Acts relating to the Post Horse Duties.

396 89. An Act for imposing additional Rates and Duties on the Conveyance of Letters between Port Patrick in Scotland and Donaghadee in Ireland.

4.00 90. An Act to remove Doubts, and to remedy Defects, in the Law, with respect to certain Offences committed upon the Sea, or within the Jurisdiction of the Admiralty. 401 91. An Act to authorise the Paymasters of Royal Marines to issue Pay, not exceeding a certain Sum, to the Representatives of deceased Officers and Private Men, without Probate or Administration.

403

92. An Act for the further Prevention of forging and counterfeiting of Bank Notes. 404 93. An Act to amend and render more effectual the Provisions of divers Acts, for securing to certain Artificers, Workmen and Labourers, in such Acts mentioned, the due Payment of their Wages.

406

94. An Act for taking an Account of the Population of Great Britain, and of the Increase or Diminution thereof. 410

95. An Act for obtaining Returns from Turnpike Road Trusts of the Amount of their Revenues, and Expense of maintaining the same. 423

96. An Act for defraying, until the Twenty fifth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty one, the Charge of

the

the Pay and Clothing of the Militia of Ireland; and for making Allowances to Officers and Quartermasters of the said Militia during Peace.

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97. An Act to revive and to continue, for One Year, the several Acts for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in Ireland. 431

98. An Act to amend an Act passed in the Fifty seventh Year of His late Majesty, for the Establishment of Asylums for the Lunatic Poor in Ireland.

Ibid. 99. An Act to enable the East India Company to raise and maintain a Corps of Volunteer Infantry.

433 100. An Act for amending and reducing into One Act of Parliament, Two several Acts, passed in the Thirty sixth and Thirty ninth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for the better ordering and further regulating of the Militia of the City of London.

434 101. An Act to enable the Examination of Witnesses to be taken in India in support of Bills of Divorce on account of Adultery committed in India.

452

102. An Act for making general the Provisions of an Act made in the Forty sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, for removing Difficulties in the Conviction of Offenders stealing Property from Mines.

454

103. An Act for the further Encouragement and Improvement of the British Fisheries.

455

104. An Act to enable His Majesty to defray the Charge of a certain Barrack by the Grant of an Annuity on the Consolidated Fund. 457

105. An Act to continue, for Two Years, an Act of the Fifty sixth Year of His late Majesty, for establishing Regulations respecting Aliens arriving in or resident in this Kingdom, in certain Cases.

460

106. An Act to enable Chaplains in the Navy, presented to either of the Livings of Simonburn, Wark, Bellingham, Thorneyburn, Fallstone, or Greystead, in the County of Northumberland, to receive their Half Pay; and for other Purposes relating to the said Livings.

Ibid. 107. An Act for appropriating to the Use of the Master of the Rolls for the time being the Rents of the Rolls Estate, and the Dividends of the Funds in the Court of Chancery arising from the Surplus Rents of that Estate. 463 108. An Act for enabling His Majesty to settle Annuities upon certain Branches of the Royal Family, in lieu of Annuities which have ceased upon the Demise of His late Majesty. 466 109. An Act to enable His Majesty to grant Pensions to Officers and Attendants upon His late Majesty, and other Persons to whom His said late Majesty had granted Pensions and Allow

ances.

469

110. An Act to enable the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury to issue Exchequer Bills, on the Credit of such Aids or Supplies as have been or shall be granted by Parliament for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty.

470 111. An Act for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and

twenty,

twenty, and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament. Page 470 112. An Act for improving and completing the Harbour of Port Patrick in Scotland, so as to render the same a more fit Situation for His Majesty's Packets.

485

113. An Act for granting a certain Sum of Money towards improving the Harbour of Donaghadee in Ireland, and rendering it a more fit Situation for His Majesty's Packets. 496 114. An Act for enabling William Blackall Simonds Esquire to sell or mortgage his Estate and Interest in the Impropriate Rectory of Caversham, in the County of Oxford, free from the Claims of the Crown.

513

115. An Act to repeal so much of the several Acts passed in the Thirty ninth Year of the Reign of Elizabeth, the Fourth of George the First, the Fifth and Eighth of George the Second, as inflicts Capital Punishments on certain Offences therein specified, and to provide more suitable and effectual Punishment for such Offences.

Ibid. 116. An Act to repeal so much of the several Acts passed in the First and Second Years of the Reign of Philip and Mary, the Eighteenth of Charles the Second, the Ninth of George the First, and the Twelfth of George the Second, as inflicts Capital Punishment on certain Offences therein specified. 516 117. An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the Tenth and Eleventh Years of King William the Third, intituled An Act for the better apprehending, prosecuting and punishing of Felons that commit Burglary, Housebreaking or Robbery, in Shops, Warehouses, Coachhouses or Stables, or that steal Horses, as takes away the Benefit of Clergy from Persons privately stealing in any Shop, Warehouse, Coachhouse or Stable, any Goods, Wares or Merchandises of the Value of Five Shillings; and for more effectually preventing the Crime of stealing privately in Shops, Warehouses, Coachhouses or Stables. 518 118. An Act for reducing, until the Fifth Day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, the Duty on Malt made from Bear or Bigg only, for Home Consumption in Scot

land.

519

119. An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England; to continue in force until the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty five.

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS

DECLARED PUBLICK

AND TO BE JUDICIALLY NOTICED.

N Act to continue the Term, and alter and enlarge the Powers of several Acts passed for repairing the Roads therein described, so far as the said Acts relate to the Roads leading from Ferrybridge, through Wetherby, to Boroughbridge, in the County of York.

552

ii. An Act to continue the Term, and alter and enlarge the Powers of several Acts passed for repairing the Road from Knaresborough to Green Hammerton, in the County of York Page 552 . An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers of Two Acts of His late Majesty King George the Third, for repairing the Road from the Moot Hall, in Wirksworth, to the Turnpike Road leading from Derby to Brassington; and from the said Moot Hall to another Turnpike Road leading from Wirksworth Moor to Matlock Bath, at or near to the Steeple House in Wirksworth aforesaid, all in the County of Derby.

553

iv. An Act to continue, until the Twenty fourth Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty two, Two Acts, of the Fifty ninth and Sixtieth Years of His late Majesty, for regulating the Weight and Sale of Bread.

Ibid.

V. An Act for repealing an Act of His late Majesty's Reign, for making a Harbour in the Cove of Beer, in the County of Devon, and for granting more effectual Powers for effecting the Purpose aforesaid.

Ibid. vi. An Act for altering and enlarging the Powers of Two Acts of His late Majesty, for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor in the Hundred of Blything, in the County of Suffolk.

Ibid.

Ibid.

vii. An Act for regulating the Repairs of the Bridges in the County of Montgomery. viii. An Act for lighting with Gas the Town of Wolverhampton, in the County of Stafford.

Ibid.

ix. An Act for lighting with Gas the Borough of Derby. Ibid. x. An Act for incorporating the City of Gloucester Gas Light Company.

ways

Ibid.

xi. An Act for lighting with Gas the City of Norwich, and County of the same City. Ibid. xii. An Act for repealing an Act of His late Majesty's Reign, for paving and improving the Parish of Saint Clement, in the Town and Port of Hastings, in the County of Sussex, and for granting other and more effectual Powers in lieu thereof; for paving and otherwise improving the Streets, Lanes, and other public Passages and Places, and for repairing the Highwithin the said Parish and the Parish of All Saints, and that Part of the Parish of Saint Mary in the Castle which is situate within the Liberties of the said Town and Port. xiii. An Act for reviving, extending and varying the Powers of an Act, passed in the Twenty sixth Year of His late Majesty King George the Third, for making and widening certain Streets, Passages and Places in the Town of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and for several other Purposes in the said Act mentioned, and also for further improving the said Town.

Ibid.

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xiv. An Act for continuing the Term and altering and enlarging the Powers of an Act of His late Majesty's Reign, for amending the Road leading out of the Highway from Wigan to Golborn and Warrington, into the Road from Wigan to Ashton, in Ashton in Mackerfield, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

Ibid.