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chase an estate, in order to accompany the said title, in consideration of the eminent and signal services performed by the said Duke of Wellington, to his majesty and to the public; and for making further provision for the disposal of a sum of money granted by an act of the last session of parlia ment, for purchasing an estate for the said Duke, then Marquis of Welling

ton.

162. An act for settling and securing an annuity on Lord Beresford, and the persons to whom the title of Lord Beresford shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

163. An act for settling and securing an annuity on Lord Combermere, and the two next persons to whom the title of Lord Combermere shall de

scend, in consideration of his eminent services.

164. An act for settling and secu ring an annuity on Lord Exmouth, and the persons to whom the title of Lord Exmouth shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

165. An act for settling and securing an annuity on Lord Hill, and the persons to whom the title of Lord Hill shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

166. An act for settling and securing an annuity on Lord Lynedoch, and the persons to whom the title of Lord Lynedoch shall descend, in consideration of his eminent services.

167. An act for applying a certain sum of money arisen, or to arise, from certain duties granted to his majesty during the continuance of the present war, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1814; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

168. An act to amend the laws respecting the attestation of instruments of appointment and revocation made

in exercise of certain powers in deeds, wills, and other instruments.

169. An act for making certain gulations respecting the postage ship-letters, and of letters in Gre Britain.

170. An act to repeal certain pro visions in local acts for the mainte nance and regulation of the poor, and to make other provisions in relation

thereto.

171. An act to empower the com missioners of his majesty's treasury to restore seizures, or remit or mitigate fines, penalties, or forfeitures incurred, concerning any laws relating to the customs or excise, or navigation and trade of Great Britain.

172. An act for repealing the duties payable in Scotland upon distillers wash, spirits, and licenses, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof.

173. An act (to alter and amend certain of the powers and provisions of several acts passed for the redemption and sale of the land-tax, and for making further provision for the redemption thereof.

174. An act for letting to farm the post-horse duties.

175. An act to explain and amead several acts relating to spiritual persons holding of farms, and for enforcing the residence of such persons on their benefices in England, for one year, and from thence until six weeks after the meeting of the then next session of parliament.

176. An act for defraying the charge of the pay and clothing of the local militia in Great Britain for the year 1814.

177. An act for defraying the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia of Ireland, and for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the said militia during peace.

178. An act to continue so much of an act, made in the 43d year of his

鏓 present majesty's reign, for authorizing the billetting and subjecting to military discipline certain yeomanry and officers of cavalry or infancorps try, as relates to such corps in Ireland. 179. An act to amend an act passed in the 49th year of his present majesty's reign, intituled an act for amending and reducing into one act of parliament the several laws for raising and training the militia of Ireland.

180. An act to provide for the preserving and restoring of peace in such parts of Ireland as may at any time be disturbed by seditious persons, or by spersons entering into unlawful combi. nations or conspiracies.

181. An act to render more easy and effectual redress for assaults in Ireland.

182. An act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1816, an act for regulating the trade to the Isle of Malta; and to revive and continue, for the same period, several acts relating to the trade to the Cape of Good Hope; and to the bringing and landing certain prize goods in Great Britain. 183. An act to impose a countervailing duty of excise on bleaching powder imported from Ireland.

184. An act for the effectual examination of accounts of the receipt and expenditure of the colonial revenues in the islands of Ceylon, Mauritius, Malta, Trinidad, and in the set tlements of the Cape of Good Hope, for five years.

185. An act to allow a bounty on the exportation from Great Britain of British-made cordage.

186. An act for the more easy apprehending and trying of offenders escaping from one part of the united kingdom to the other.

187. An act to revive and continue, until the first day of June, 1820, and to amend several acts for the more effectual prevention of depredations on the river Thames and its vicinity.

188. An act for enabling his Majesty to raise the sum of three millions for the service of Great Britain, and for applying the sum of 200,0001. British currency for the service of Ireland.

189. An act to defray the charge of the pay, clothing, and contingent expenses of the disembodied militia in Great Britain, and of the miners of Cornwall and Devon, and for granting allowances, in certain cases, to subaltern officers, adjutants, surgeons mates, and serjeant-majors of militia, until the 25th day of June, 1815.

190. An act for appointing commissioners for carrying into execution an act of this session of parliament, for granting to his Majesty a duty on pensions and offices in England; and an act made in the 38th year of his present Majesty, for granting an aid to his Majesty by a land-tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the service of the year 1798.

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PUBLIC ACCOUNTS

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