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PUBLIC ACTS OF THE YEAR.

1. An act to enable his majesty to accept the services of a proportion of the militia out of the united kingdom, for the vigorous prosecution of the

war.

2. An act for continuing to his majesty certain duties on malt, sugar, tobacco, and snuff, in Great Britain; and on pensions, offices, and personal estates, in England; for the service of the year 1814.

3. An act for raising the sum of 22,000,0001. by way of annuities.

4. An act to continue, until six weeks after the commencement of the next session of parliament, an act, passed in the last session of parliament, intituled an act to continue and amend an act of the present session, to prevent the issuing and circulating of pieces of gold and silver, or other metal, usually called tokens, except such as are issued by the banks of England and Ireland respectively.

5. An act to indemnify such persons in the united kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the times limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th day of March, 1815; and to permit such persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of

indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors, to make and file the same, on or before the first day of Hilary term, 1815.

6. An act to stay, until the 20th day of April, 1814, proceeding in actions, under an act, passed in the 43d year of his present majesty, to amend the laws relating to spiritual persons.

7. An act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1815, and amend an act for regulating the drawbacks and bounties on the exportation of su. gar from Ireland.

8. An act to provide for the charge of the addition to the public funded debt of Great Britain, for the service of the year 1814.

9. An act for fixing the commence. ment and termination of licences, to be granted for the distillation of spirits from corn or grain in Scotland.

10. An act to amend an act, passed in the 51st year of the reign of his present majesty, intituled an act to permit the interchange of the British and Irish militias respectively.

11. An act for extending the provisions of an act, passed in the 46th year of his present majesty (for making better provision for soldiers) to serjeants of the militia.

12. An act to enable his majesty to

augment the 60th regiment to ten bat talions, by enlistment of foreigners.

13. An act for giving effect to certain engagements of his majesty with the Emperor of all the Russias and the King of Prussia, for furnishing a part of the pecuniary succours for as sisting his majesty's said allies, in supporting the expenses of the war with France.

14. An act to provide that property vested in the accountant-general of the high court of Chancery as such, shall, upon his death, removal, or resignation, vest, from time to time, in those who shall succeed to the office.

15. An act for the more easy recovery of debts in his majesty's colony of New South Wales.

16. An act to explain an act of the 41st year of his present majesty, for declaring what persons shall be disa bled from sitting and voting in the House of Commons of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

17. An act to enable his majesty to accept the services of a proportion of the militia of the city of London, out of the united kingdom, for the vigorous prosecution of the war.

18. An act for raising the sum of 10,500,0001. by exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1814.

19. An act to enable his majesty to accept the services of the local militia, out of their counties, under certain restrictions, and until the 25th day of March, 1815.

20. An act to explain and amend an act, passed in the present session of parliament, for enabling his majesty to accept the services of a proportion of the militia out of the united kingdom, for the vigorous prosecution of the war; and to extend the provisions thereof to the regiment of miners of Cornwall and Devon.

21. An act for charging an equal

izing duty on Scotch salt brought to England.

22. An act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1815, an act of the 52d year of his present majesty, for the more effectual preservation of the peace, by enforcing the duties of watching and warding.

23. An act to amend an act of the 53d year of his majesty's reign, intituled an act for the relief of insolvent debtors in England.

24. An act for further continuing, until the 25th day of March, 1815, certain bounties and drawbacks on the exportation of sugar from Great Britain; and for suspending the countervailing duties and bounties on sugar, when the duties imposed by an act of the 49th year of his present majesty shall be suspended.

25. An act for punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

26. An act for repealing the duties of customs on madder imported into Great Britain; and for granting other duties in lieu thereof; to continue in force until the 5th day of January, 1817.

27. An act to rectify a mistake in an act of the present session of parliament, for repealing the duties of customs on madder imported into Great Britain, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof.

28. An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors in England.

29. An act to charge an additional duty of customs on brandy, imported into Great Britain for the purpose of exportation, and which shall be taken out of warehouse for home consumption, before the 31st day of March, 1814.

30. An act to continue until the 25th day of March, 1815, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, several laws re

lating to the transportation of felons and other offenders, and to the authorizing the removal of offenders to temporary places of confinement in England and Scotland.

31. An act for the regulating of his majesty's royal marine forces while on shore.

32. An act to amend the several acts for preventing illicit distillation of spirits in Ireland.

33. An act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1815, an act, made in the parliament of Ireland, in the 27th year of his present majesty, for the better execution of the law and preservation of the peace within counties at large, as amended by an act of the 36th of his majesty.

34. An act for the further regulation of the trade to and from the places within the limits of the charter of the East India company.

35. An act to extend the period for allowing importations from, and exportations within the limits of the charter of the East India company, in ships not British built, until the 1st day of January, 1815.

36. An act to repeal the duties of customs payable on goods, wares, and merchandize, imported into Great Britain from any port or place within the limits of the charter granted to the united company of merchants of England trading to the East Indies; and to grant other duties in lieu thereof; and to establish further regulations for the better security of the revenue on goods so imported; and to alter the periods of making up and presenting certain accounts of the said company to parliament; to continue in force until the 10th day of April, 1819.

37. An act for repealing an act made in the 51st year of his present majesty, for the more effectual administration of the office of a justice of the peace, in such parts of the counties of Middlesex and Surry as lie in

and near the metropolis; and for ma king other provisions in lieu thereof; to continue in force until the 1st day of June, 1820, and from thence until the expiration of six weeks from the commencement of the then next session of parliament,

38. An act for allowing a certain proportion of the London militia to enlist into the regular forces for the vigorous prosecution of the war; also, a certain proportion to enlist annually into the regular forces; and for completing the said militia.

39. An act for raising the sum of 5,000,0001. by exchequer bills for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1814.

40. An act to remove doubts re

specting the payment of drawback on the exportation of French wine in cer, tain cases.

41. An act to continue, until the 1st day of July, 1814, an act made in the 49th year of his present majesty's reign, to suspend the importation of British or Irish made spirits into Great Britain or Ireland respectively.

42. An act to repeal an act of the 52d year of his present majesty, for the punishment of persons destroying stocking or lace frames, or any articles in such frames, and to make other provisions instead thereof.

43. An act to vest in trustees certain messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, for extending the present lines and works, and for erecting other works and buildings at and near Portsmouth and Hilsea, in the county of Southampton.

44. An act to continue, until the 20th day of May, 1814, an act passed in this session of parliament, intituled an act to stay, until the 20th day of April, 1814, proceedings in actions, under an act passed in the 43d year of his present majesty, to amend the laws relating to spiritual persons. 45. An act to continue the period

for purchasing the legal quays in the port of London.

46. An act for altering the period during which writs of assistance shall remain in force.

47. An act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1817, an act of the 52d year of his present majesty, to regulate the separation of damaged from sound coffee, and to permit dealaers to send out any quantity of coffee not exceeding eight pounds weight, without permit.

48. An act to revive and make perpetual certain acts for consolidating and extending the several laws in force, for allowing the importation and exportation of certain articles into and from certain ports in the West Indies. 49. An act to revive and continue, until the expiration of nine months after the conclusion of the war with the United States of America, an act made in the last session of parliament, to authorize the importation and exportation of certain articles into and from the West Indies, South America, and Newfoundland.

50. An act to amend so much of an act of his present majesty, for repealing the several duties of customs, and granting other duties in lieu thereof, as relates to the duties payable on salt exported.

51. An act to revive and further continue until nine months after the conclusion of the present war, an act of the 7th year of King George II., for the free importation of cochineal and indigo.

52. An act to revive and continue, during the continuance of any act imposing any restriction on the governor and company of the bank of England, with respect to payments in cash, an act of the 52d year of his present majesty, for making more effectual provision for preventing the current gold coin of the realm from being paid or accepted for a greater value than the

current value of such coin; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

53. 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 Great Britain for the year 1814.

54. An act to discontinue proceed. ings in certain actions already commenced, and to prevent vexatious suits against spiritual persons, under an act passed in the 43d year of his present majesty ; and further to continue, until the 20th day of July, 1814, an act of the present session of parliament, for staying proceedings under the said act.

55. An act for fixing the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers.

56. An act to amend and render more effectual an act of his present majesty, for encouraging the art of making new models and casts of busts, and other things therein mentioned; and for giving further encouragement to such arts.

57. An act to repeal the schedule annexed to an act of the 45th year of his present majesty, by which the drawbacks and bounties on sugar exported are to be ascertained, and substituting another in lieu thereof; and to permit the importation of sugar, coffee, and other articles, the produce of Martinique, Mariegalante, Saint Eustatia, Saint Martin, and Saba, under the same duties and regulations as similar articles of the British plantations, to continue until the 5th day of April, 1815.

58. An act to continue, during the present hostilities with the United States of America, an act of the 43d year of his present majesty, for the better protection of the trade of the united kingdom.

59. An act to allow ships taken

and condemned for being used in car rying on the slave trade to be registered as British-built ships.

60. An act for the better preventing the embezzlement of his majesty's cordage.

61. An act to amend an act of the 22d year of his present majesty, intituled an act to prevent the granting in future any patent office, to be exercised in any colony or plantation, now or at any time hereafter belonging to the crown of Great Britain, for any longer term than during such time as the grantee thereof, or person appointed thereto, shall discharge the duty thereof in person, and behave well therein.

62. An act to amend several acts for erecting or establishing public infirmaries or hospitals, in Ireland, so far as relates to the surgeons and apothecaries of such infirmaries or hospitals.

63. An act to amend several acts for enabling his majesty's postmaster general of Ireland to purchase premises for the enlargement of the general post-office in the city of Dublin.

64. An act to continue, until the 5th day of July, 1815, certain temporary or war duties of customs on the importation of goods, wares, and merchandize in Great Britain.

65. An act to repeal certain duties on French goods imported into Great Britain, and on foreign hides exported to France, and to grant other duties on French goods so imported.

66. An act to repeal the duties on teak-wood and other ship timber imported from the East Indies; and to repeal so much of an act of the 19th year of his late majesty, as exempts captains of vessels coming from the East Indies, from penalties of having foreign-made sails.

67. An act to allow viva voce verdicts to be returned to the high courts

and circuit courts of justiciary of Scot land, in certain cases; and for allow ing appeals to the circuit courts of justiciary, in civil cases, to a certain amount.

68. An act for the better regulation of ecclesiastical courts in Ireland; and for the more easy recovery of church rates and tithes.

69. An act to permit the exportation of corn, grain, meal, malt, and flour, from any part of the united kingdom, without payment of duty, or receiving of bounty.

70. An act for the further inprovement of the land revenue of the crown.

71. An act to revive and continue, until the 5th day of July, 1819, the manufacture of Maidstone geneva.

72. An act for permitting a trade between the United Provinces and certain colonies now in his majesty's possession.

73. An act to continue, until the fifth day of July, 1815, certain additional duties of excise in Great Bri tain.

74. An act for granting to his majesty a sum of money to be raised by lotteries.

75. An act for raising the sum of 1,716,666l. 13s. 4d. Irish currency, by treasury bills, for the service of Ireland, for the year 1814.

76. An act for raising the sum of 24,000,000%. by way of annuities.

77. An act to amend an act of the 53d year of his present majesty, for repealing the duties payable on the importation of wine, the produce of the Cape of Good Hope, and its dependencies, and charging other duties in lieu thereof.

78. An act to repeal so much of an act passed in the 9th and 10th year of the reign of King William the 3d, and of another act passed in the 28th year of his present majesty, as respects the

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