: A TABLE of the STATUTES, Containing the Titles of all such Acts as are extant in print, from the Eighth Year of King GEORGE I. to the Second Year of King GEORGE II. Anno 9 Georgii I. Cap. 1. To impower his Maje sty to secure and detain such perfons, as his Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his person and government. Cap. 2. For granting an aid to his Cap. 3. For continuing the duties on ters. Cap. 5. For redeeming certain annuities, now payable by the cashier of the bank of England, at the rate of five pounds per centum per annum. Cap. 6. For reviving and adding two millions to the capital stock of the South-Sea company, and for reviving a proportional part of the yearly fund payable at the exchequer, and for dividing their whole capital (after fuch divifion made) into two equal parts or moieties, and for converting one of the said moieties into certain annuities, for the benefit of the members, and for fettling the remaining moiety in the said company; and for continuing for one year longer the provision formerly made against requiring special bail in actions or fuits upon fuch contracts, as are therein mentioned, VOL. XV. Cap. 7. For amending the laws relating to the fettlement, imployment, and relief of the poor. Cap. 8. For continuing some laws, and reviving others therein mentioned, for exempting apothecaries from ferving parith and ward offices, and upon juries, and relating to jurors; and to the payment of seamens wages, and the preservation of naval stores, and stores of war; and concerning the militia, and trophy-money; and against clandestine running of uncustomed goods, and for more effectual preventing frauds relating to the customs, and frauds in mixing silk with stuffs to be exported. Cap. 9. For the better qualifying the manufacturers of stuffs and yarn in the city of Norwich, and liberties thereof, to bear offices of magistracy in the faid city, and for regulating elections of fuch officers. Cap. 1o. For clearing, depthning, repairing, extending, maintaining, and improving the haven and piers of Great Yarmouth, and for depthning and making more navigable the several rivers emptying themselves at the said town; and also for preserving ships, wintering in the faid haven, from accidents by fire. Cap. II, For repairing and widening the road leading from the BlackBull in Dunstable in the county of Bedford, to the way turning out of the faid road up to Shafford-House in the county of Hertford. 1 a Cap. Cap. 12. For the more easy afsigning or transferring certain redeemable annuities, payable at the exchequer, by endorsements on the standing orders for the fame. Cap. 13. For the enlarging the term granted by an act, passed in the eighth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An act for repairing the highways, between the house commonly called the Horshoe-House, in the parish of Stoke-Goldington, in the county of Bucks, and the town of Northampton; and for repairing the road from the north-bridge of Newport-Pagnel in the county of Bucks, to the faid Horfhoe-House. Cap. 14. For enlarging the term granted by an act made in the third year of his Majesty's reign (for continuing the duty of two pennies Scots upon every pint of ale and beer fold in the city of Edinburgh, for the purposes therein mentioned; and for discontinuing payment of the Petty-Port Customs there) and for making the said act more effectual. Cap. 15. To inflict pains and penalties on John Plunket. Cap. 16. To inflict pains and penalties on George Kelly, alias Johnfon. Cap. 17. To inflict pains and penalties on Francis lord bishop of Rochefter. Cap. 18. For granting an aid to his Majesty by laying a tax upon papists, and for making such other persons, as upon due summons shall refuse or neglect to take the oaths therein mentioned, to contribute towards the faid tax, for reimburfing to the publick part of the great expences occafioned by the late conspiracies; and for discharging the estates of papists from the two third parts of the rents and profits thereof for one year, and all arrears of thesame, and from fuch forfeitures as are therein more particularly described...... Cap. 19. To continue the duties for encouragement of the coinage of monies; and for relief of William late lord Widdrington; and to prevent foreign lotteries being carried on in this kingdom; and for afcertaining the duties on bound books imported; and for issuing certificates and debentures for arrears due to five regiments, to be fatisfied by annuities therein mentioned; and for difcharging the duties of rock-⚫ falt loft on the rivers Weaver and Mercy; and for limiting the times of continuance of commiffioners for forfeited estates in England and Scotland respectively; and for appropriating the fupplies granted to his Majesty in this seffion of parliament; and to rectify misnomers and omiffions of commiffioners for the land tax in the year 1723.. Cap. 20. For laying a duty of two Cap. 22. For the more effectual pu- Cap. 23. For further enlarging the times for entring, hearing, and determining claims on the estates *vefted vested in the trustees of the SouthSea company, and for obliging perfons to claim stock by the time therein mentioned for money-fubscriptions, and for other the purposes therein mentioned. Cap. 24. To oblige all persons, being papists, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and alt persons in Great Britain refufing or neglecting to take the oaths appointed for the security of his Majesty's person and government, by several acts herein mentioned, to register their names and real estates. Cap. 25. For making more effectual an act passed in the eighth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled, An att for fupplying the records of the commissary court of Aberdeen burnt or loft in the late fire there. Cap. 26. To prevent his Majesty's subjects from subscribing or being concerned in encouraging or promoting any subscription for an Eaft-India company in the Auftrian Netherlands; and for the better securing the lawful trade of his Majesty's subjects to and from the East-Indies. Cap. 27. For preventing journeymen shoemakers felling, exchanging, or pawning boots, shoes, slippers, cut leather, or other materials for making boots, shoes, or flippers, and for better regulating the said journeymen. copyhold estates in particular cases. Cap. 30. For compleating the repairs of the harbour of Dover, in the county of Kent; and for restoring the harbour of Rye, in the county of Suffex, to its ancient goodness. Cap. 31. For repairing the highways from the city of Gloucester, to the top of Birdlip-Hill, (being the road to London) and from the foot of the said hill to the top of CrickleyHill, (being the road to Oxford) and to oblige those concerned in the receipt or payment of any monies, by virtue of an act of the ninth and tenth years of his late majesty King William, touching the repairing the faid highways, to account for the fame to the trustees appointed by this act. Cap. 32. For confirming articles of agreement between the principal officers of the ordnance, and Thomas Miffing, efq; for exchange of fome lands at Portsmouth, for the service of his Majesty. Private Acts. Anno 9 Georgii I. 1. An act to enable Darcy Dawes, efq; and Sarah Roundell, to make fettlements, upon their inter-marriage, of their several estates, notwithstanding their respective minorities. 2. An act for naturalizing Luder Mello, Benjamin Berkenhout, and others. 3. An act for naturalizing John Anthony Loubier, Henry Loubier, and others. Cap. 28. For more effectual execution of justice in a pretended privileged place in the parish of St. George in 4. An act to enable William Sheppard the county of Surrey, commonly call ed the Mint; and for bringing to spee dy and exemplary justice such offenders as are therein mentioned; to change his firname of Sheppard to Hall, according to the will of William Hall, ferjeant at law, de ceafed. and for giving relief to such persons 5. An act to enable Timothy Watts, of as are proper objects of charity and compaflion there. Cap. 29. To enable lords of manors more easily to recover their fines, and to exempt infants and femes covert from forfeitures of their Burbage in the county of Leicester, efq; and his heirs, to change or alter their names to Saint Nicholas, according to the will of Bazil Saint Nicholas of Knowle in the county of Warwick, efq; deceased, 6. An a2 7. An act to vest in trustees for William Lounds, efq; the reverfion in fee, expectant upon a term of fourscore and nineteen years now in being, of and in certain pieces of ground and building thereupon, in the parish of St. James within the liberty of Westminster, and of and in a certain messuage and land at or near Knightsbridge, upon paying the yalue thereof into the exchequer. 8. An act to confirm certain exchanges, conveyances, and other affurances, made by John Jenyns, esq; and others, of fome parts of the estates comprized in the articles and settlement made on his marriage with Dorothy his late wife, and to fupply fome defects in the faid articles and settlement; and to enable him to make a settlement on any future marriage. 9. An act for vesting in trustees the estates of George Bennet, gent. and of Henry Bennet, his only son and heir, in the county of Devon, to be fold for the purposes therein mentioned. 10. An act to naturalize Elizabeth Burr, and others. 11. An act to naturalize John Berkenkout and Jacob Hansen Busk. 12. An act for compleating the fale of the manors of Croxton, alias Croxden, and Great Yate, and other lands and tenements, late the estate of the most noble Evelyn duke of Kingston (lord privy feal) in the county of Stafford; and ascertaining and augmenting the ftipend of the minister of Croxton aforesaid, out of the faid eftate, and for charging one annuity given to the poor of Croxton aforesaid, wholly upon the said eftate, and discharging the fame eftate from other annuities : given to the minister and poor ol Tong in the county of Salop, by a deed and will of Gervas, lord Pierrepont, deceased, and thereby charged upon his estate in the counties of Salop and Stafford. 13. An act for confirming and establishing articles of agreement between the most noble John, duke of Montagu, and William, duke of Manchester, and others, upon a marriage intended between the faid duke of Manchester and the lady Isabella, eldest daughter of the faid duke of Montagu. 14. An act for the vesting several woods, lands and coppices in Stanierne and Geddington in the county of Northampton, and belonging to the right honourable George, earl of Cardigan, in the most noble John, duke of Montagu, and his heirs; and for vesting and fettling other woods, lands and coppices, lying in the parishes of Oakley Parva and Stanierne in the said county of Northampton, in and upon the faid George, earl of Cardigan, with remainders over, and in the manner herein mentioned. 15. An act to enable Richard Edgcombe, esq; to fell lands, not exceeding twenty acres, to and for the use of his Majesty, for building a victualling office for the service of the royal navy at Plymouth; and to purchase other lands to be fettled to the fame uses, as the lands to be fold now stand limited by his marriage-fettlement. 16. An act to enable trustees, with the consent of Mary, the wife of Thomas Horton, esq; a lunatick, to execute the powers in the marriagefettlement of the said lunatick, for raising any fum, not exceeding three thousand pounds, for Elizabeth Horton, and Eleanor Horton his daughters, and for other purposes herein mentioned. 17. An act for vesting certain lands, tene |