and for giving further time for thofe purposes; and to indem nify members and officers, in cities, corporations, and borough towns, whofe admiffions have been omitted to be ftamped according to law, or, having been ftamped, have been loft or milaid; and for allowing them time to provide admiffions duly ftamped; and to give further time to fuch perfons as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and folicitors, or to pay the duties on the indentures and contracts of clerks, apprentices, or fervants; and for indemnifying deputy lieutenants and officers of the militia, who have neglected to tranfmit defcriptions of their qualifications to the clerks of the peace within the time limited by law; and for giving further time for that purpose.

Cap. 41. For raifing a certain fum of money, by way of annuities, to be attended with the benefit of furvivorship, in claffes.

Cap. 42. For applying the fum of one thoufand pounds out of the unexhaufted balance or furplus arifing from the forfeited eftates in North Britain, towards completing and finishing the bridge over the Pees or Pafs of Cockburnfpath, in the county of Berwick.

Cap. 43. For altering and enlarging the powers of an act, made in the thirteenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for deepening, cleanfing, and making more cominodious, the harbours of the town of Greenock; for Supplying the inhabitants with frefb and wholefome water; and for paving, cleaning, lighting, and watching the fireets and other public places within the faid town.

Cap. 44. For paving the footways of the feveral freet, publick paffages, and places, within the town of Chelmsford, and hamlet of Moulshami, in the parish of Chelmsford, in the county of Effex; and for cleanfing, lighting, and watching the said town and hamlet; and for removing and preventing nuifances, annoyances, and incroachments therein.

Cap. 45. For amending and continuing, for a limited time, an act made in the laft feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for difcontinuing, for a limited time, the feveral duties payable in Scotland, upon low wines and fpirits, and upon worts, wash, and other liquors there used in the diftillation of fpirits, and for granting to his Majefly other duties in licu thereof; and for better regulating the exportation of British-made fpirits from England to Scotland, and from Scotland to England; and to continue, for a limited time, an det made in the twenty-fixth year of the reign of his prefent Majeffy, "to difcontinue for a limited time, the payment of the duties upon low wines and fpirits for home confumption; and for granting and fecuring the due payment of other duties in licu thereof; and for the better regulation of the making and vending British spirits; and for difcontinuing for a limited time, certain impofs and duties upon rum and fpirits imported from the Weft Indies;" and to revive and continue the faid lali mentioned act.

Cap. 46. For preventing the wilfully burning or destroying

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fhips, and the wilfully and maliciously destroying any woollen, filk, linen, or cotton goods, or any implements prepared for or used in the manufacture thereof, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

Cap. 47. For providing an additional burial ground for the parish of Saint James, Westminster, and erecting a chapel adjoining thereto, and alfo a houfe for the refidence of a clergyman to officiate in burying the dead.

Cap. 48. For conftituting the church of Saint Giles, in the parish of Pontefract, in the county of York, the parish church; and for other purposes.

Cap. 49. For granting to his Majefty feveral additional rates and duties upon horfes and carriages with four wheels; and for explaining and amending an act paffed in the twenty-fifth year of his present Majesty, as far as relates to certain carriages with two or three wheels therein mentioned.

Cap. 50. For granting to his Majefty several additional stamp duties on newspapers, advertisements, and on cards and dice.

Cap. 51. For granting to his Majefty feveral additional ftamp duties on probates of wills, letters of administration, and on receipts for legacies, or for any thare of a perional eftate divided by force of the statute of diftributions.

Cap. 52. To give further powers to the commiffioners for erecting certain lighthoufes in the northern parts of Great Britain.

Cap. 53. For further encouraging and regulating the Newfoundland, Greenland, and fouthern whale fisheries.

Cap. 54. For further continuing an act made in the twentythird year of the reign of his present Majefty, intituled, An act for the more effectual encouragement of the manufactures of flax and

cotton in Great Britain.

Cap. 55 To continue feveral laws therein mentioned, relative to the better encouragement of the making of fail cloth in Great Britain; to the encouragement of the filk manufactures; and for taking off feveral duties on merchandize exported, and reducing other duties; to the free importation of cochineal and indigo; to the prohibiting the importation of books reprinted abroad, and first compofed, written, and printed in Great Britain; to fecuring the duties upon foreign-made fail cloth,' and charging foreign-made fails with a duty; to the prohibiting the importation of foreign wrought filks and velvets; to the difcontinuing the duties payable upon the importation of tallow, hogs lard, and greafe; to the probibiting the exportation of tools and utenfils made use of in the iron and steel manufactures of this kingdom, and to prevent the feducing of artificers and workmen, employed in those manufactures, to go into parts beyond the feas; and to the afcertaining the strength of fpirits by Clarke's hydrometer.

Cap. 56. For explaining and amending an act, paffed in the laft feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for regulating the trade between the fubjects of his Majefty's colonies and plantations in North

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America, and in the West India islands, and the countries belonging to the united flates of America; and between his Majefty's faid fubjects and the foreign iflands in the West Indies.

Cap. 57. For further regulating the trade or business of pawnbrokers.

Cap. 58. For better regulating and afcertaining the importation and exportation of corn and grain; and alfo for better regulating the exportation of starch, and the importation of rape feed.

Cap. 59. For allowing the like drawback on teas, exported to the islands of Guernsey and Jersey, and to Gibraltar, and other places on the continent of Europe, and to Africa, as is now allowed on teas exported to Ireland or America.

Cap. 60. For granting further time for allowing the drawback upon the exportation of coffee, imported by the East India company, in the ship Lord Camden, in the year one thousand feven hundred and eighty-fix.

Cap. 61. For granting to his Majefty a certain fum of money out of the confolidated fund; and for applying a certain fum of money therein mentioned, for the fervice of the year one thou fand feven hundred and eighty-nine; for further appropriating the supplies granted in this feffion of parliament; and for making forth duplicates of exchequer bills, lottery tickets, certificates, receipts, annuity orders, or other orders, loft, burnt, or otherwife deftroyed.

Cap. 62. For appointing commiffioners further to enquire into the loties and fervices of all fuch perfons who have fuffered in their rights, properties, and profeffions, during the late unhappy diffentions in America, in confequence of their loyalty to his Majefty, and attachment to the British government.

Cap. 63. To exempt all piece goods wove in this kingdom, and which hail be fold by auction, from the duty imposed on fuch fales, for exempting perfons licensed to retail, fpirituous liquors from the payment of the duties impofed on fuch licences, who shall leave off retailing fuch liquors before the expiration of the time for which fuch licences fhall be granted; and for obliging perfons who thall deal in brandy, not being retailers, rectifiers, or distillers, to take out licences for that purpose.

Cap. 64. To authorife the lord high treafurer, or the commidioners of the treafury, to appoint two of the commiffioners of the customs in England, and one of the commiffioners of the cuftoms in Scotland, to enquire into the annual amount of the emoluments of officers of the customs, and other perfons employed in that revenue,

Cap. 65. To enable the Eaft India company to raife money by further increafing their capital ftock.

Cap. 66. To continue, for a limited time, and amend an act, made in the last feffion of parliament, intituled, An act to regulate, for a limited time, the fipping and carrying flaves in British vefes from the coast of Africa,

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Cap. 67. For the more effectual execution of the laws refpecting gaols.

Cap. 68. For repealing the duties on tobacco and fnuff; and for granting new duties in lieu thereof.

Cap. 69. For the better paving, repairing, cleanting, lighting, and watching the highways, ftreets, lanes, and other publick paffages and places, within the town and liberty of Faversham, in the county of Kent, and alfo certain places near or adjoining thereto; and for removing and preventing incroachments, obftructions, nuifances, and annoyances therein.

Cap. 70. For dividing and inclofing the open common fen and ings in the parish of Dunfton, in the county of Lincoln; and for draining and improving certain parts thereof, and allo certain inclofed low lands in the faid parith, and in the parish of Metheringham in the faid county.

Cap. 71. For paving, lighting, cleanfing, watering, and watching fuch streets and other publick places within that part of the parish of St. Pantras, in the county of Middhfex, which lies on the north and fouth fides of the new road, leading from Paddington to Iflington, called Sommers Town, and is now actually leafed to facob Leroux efquire, for building upon, or that may be hereafter leafed for the like purpose; and for preventing nuifances and obftructions therein.

Cap. 72. For making and maintaining a navigable canal from or near the borough of Andevor, in the county of Southampton, to or near Redbridge, in the parish of Millbrook, in the faid county.

Cap. 73. For protecting and fecuring the hot baths and fprings, within the city of Bath, from injury by incroachments and annoyances; for enlarging or rebuilding the prefent pump rooms there; for widening certain ftreets, lanes, and publick paffages, and for making certain new ftreets and paffages, to render the approaches to the faid hot baths, fprings, and pump rooms, more fafe and commodious.

Cap. 74. For making and maintaining a navigable canal from or from near to Cromford Bridge, in the county of Derby, to join and communicate with the Erewash canal, at or near Langley Bridge; and alfo a collateral cut from the said intended canal at or near Codnor Park Mill, to or near Pinxton Mill, in the faid county.

Cap. 75. For the better relief and employment of the poor of the parish of Saint George Hanover Square, within the liberty of the city of Westminster; for repairing the highways, regulating the beadles, watch, and patrol; tor paving, repairing, cleanfing, lighting, and removing and preventing nuifances and annoyances within feveral of the streets and other publick paffages and places within the faid parifh; and for other purposes relating to the faid parish.

Cap. 76. For reviving certain powers granted by an act made in the tenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, (intituled, An act for dividing and inclosing fuch of the open parts of

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thrict called The Foreft of Knaresborough, in the county of York, as lie within the eleven conftableries thereof; and for other parpoles therein mentioned;) and by an act of the fourteenth year of his Majefty's reign, for amending the faid former act, and for making the faid two acts more effectual.

Cap. 77. For continuing and making more effectual the acts of parliament, for opening, cleanting, repairing, and improving the harbour of Southwold, in the county of Suffolk.

Cap. 78. For dividing, inclofing, and draining, the open fields, ings, paftures, commons, and wafte grounds, within the townships of West Haddlefey, Chapel Haddlefey, and Eaft Haddlefey, and Temple Hirft, in the parish of Birkin, in the weft riding of the county of York.

PUBLICK ACTS not printed in this COLLECTION.

Cap. 79. For making and repairing the road from the city of Glasgow, in the county of Lanark, to Muirkirk in the county of Ayr, and from thence to the confines of the faid county of Ayr, towards Sanqubar in the county of Dumfries; and other roads communicating therewith.

Cap. 8o. To enlarge the term and powers of two acts made in the twentieth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, and the eighth year of the reign of his prefent Majelly, for repairing the road from Sunderland near the jea, it the city of Durham, in the county of Durham.

Cap. 81. For altering, raifing, widening, repairing, and preferving the road leading from the town of Bishop Wearmouth, near Sunderland, in the county of Durham, to the town of Norten near Stockton, in the faid county.

Cap. 82. To enlarge the term and powers of three acts, made in the twenty-fixth and twenty-ninth years of the reign of his late majefty King George the Second, and the twelfth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, for repairing and widening Old Street Road in the parishes of Saint Luke and Saint Leonard Shoreditch, in the county of Middlefex; and alfo for repairing and keeping in repair the road leading from Worship Street to Crown Street, along the eaft fide of Moorfields.

Cap. 83. For enlarging the terms of three acts, made in the kecond, feventeenth, and twenty-eighth years of his late Maefty, for repairing the roads from Coleshill, through the city of Lichfield and the town of Stone, to the end of the county of Stafford, in the road leading towards Chefter, and feveral other reads in the faid acts mentioned, in the counties of Warwick and Stafford, and city and county of the city of Lichfield; and for making more effectual provifion for repairing and widening the faid roads, and other roads therein mentioned, in the faid County of Stafford.

Cap. 84. For enlarging the term and powers of an act, of the ninth year of his prefent Majefty, for repairing and widening the roads from the turnpike road at Golford Green, in the parish of Cranbrooke,

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