Wilfick-House, in the parish of Barmby Dun, in the faid county. Cap. 21. For granting to his Majesty the sum of three hundred and seventy thousand pounds, to be raised by loans or exchequer-bills, to be charged on the surplus monies of the duties on coals and culm, granted by an act of the fifth year of his Majesty's reign, for a term of years, and fince made perpetual. Cap. 22. For enlarging the times for hearing and determining claims by the trustees for raising money upon the estates of the late directors of the South-Sta company and others; and for relief of the creditors of Robert Knight esq; late cashier of the faid company, and for relief of persons who have entred claims > for contingent debts and incumbrances; and for giving time to Raiph Gulfton, and other creditors of Edward Gibbon efq; to enter claims before the faid trustees for a debt specified in the inventory of the faid Edward Gibbon; and for impowering the trustees to dismiss claims for want of prosecution; and for applying the produce of the faid estates for the benefit of the South-Sea company.

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Cap. 23. For the better regulation of the woollen manufacture, and for preventing disputes among the perfons concerned therein; and for ⚫ limiting a time for profecuting for the forfeiture appointed by an act of the twelfth year of his Majesty's reign, in cafe of payment of the workmen's wagesin any other manner than in money.

Cap. 24. For preventing frauds and abuses in the dying trade. Cap. 25. For the free importation of cochineal, during the time therein limited.

Cap. 26. For better regulation of the linen and hempen manufactures in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

Cap. 27. For continuing the laws therein mentioned relating to copper bars exported; and for better preventing frauds committed by bankrupts; and for searching drugs and compolitions for medicines. Cap. 28. For sale of such of the forfeited estates in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, as remain unfold, and are vested in the crown; and for determining such claims on the faid eftates, as having been duly entred, remain undetermined. Cap. 29. For allowing further time to persons on board the fleet, or beyond the feas in his Majesty's service, to qualify themselves for the legal emjoyment of offices and employments, and for indemnifying such perfons as have omitted to qualify themselves within the time limited for that purpose, and for the better afcertaining such time. Cap. 30. For encouraging and promoting fisheries, and other manufactures and improvements, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland. Cap. 31. For repairing the road from Cranford Bridge, in the county of Middlesex, to that end of Maidenhead Bridge, which lies in the county of

Bucks.

Cap. 32. For the more effectual amending the highways leading from Royfton in the county of Hertford, to Wandsford Bridge in the county of Huntingdon.

Cap. 33. For improving the navigation of the river Ouze in the county of York.

Cap. 34. For explaining and amending an act passed in the seventh and eighth years of the reign of his late majesty King William the Third, intituled, An act for making navigable the rivers Wye and Lugg, in the county of Hereford; and for making the fame more effectual.

Cap. 35. For establishing a certain • provision for maintaining the curate of the parish of St. Katharine Grezs Church

Church, alias Christ-Church, London, and for repairing and supporting the chancel of the said parishchurch.

Private Acis.

Anno 13 Georgii I.

1. An act for naturalizing Daniel Grefpin.

2. An act for naturalizing Louis Sekebaye, George Frederic Handel, and others.

3. An act for exchanging, inclosing, and reducing into severalty, the lands in the common fields, common meadows, mowing grounds, pasture and feeding grounds, and all other the lands lying open in the parish of Little Riffington, in the county of Gloucester.

4. An act to enable Thomas Brodnax esq; and the heirs and issue of his body, to take and use the furname of May.

5. An act to enable Charles Nicoll, alias Gounter, efq; and his issue male, to take and use the furname of Nicoll, pursuant to the deed of fettlement of William Nicoll, efq; de

ceafed.

6. An act for enabling John Disbrow gent. and his issue, to take and use the furname of Spencer.

7. An act for naturalizing Abraham Lindbergh, and others.

8. An act for naturalizing Louis Aubert Dupleffis.

9. An act for naturalizing Lewis Guillemau.

10. An act to enable an exchange to be made between Lionel, duke of Dorfet, and the trustees of Henry Smith efq; deceased, of fixteen acres, seventeen perches and an half of land and coppice, lying near Knole Park, in the county of Kent, of the value of eight pounds per annum, for a rent-charge of ten pounds a year, part of a fee-farm rent of forty pounds per annum, ifsfuing out

of the manor of Heddington, within

the hundred of Bullingdon, in the • county of Oxford. 11. An act to vest the several rectories, parsonages, churches and chapels of Breamore, South-Charford, Hale, Rockbourn, Whitsbury and Quidefly, with the glebe land and appurtenances thereunto belonging, in new trustees, to put in execution certain trusts and powers contained in an indenture dated the fifteenth day of May 1683.

12. An act for appointing commiffioners to make a division of certain common fields and wastes in the townships of Scarcliffe and Palterton, in Derbyshire, among the proprietors, in order to inclose the fame. 13. An act for inclosing the common fields in Hucklecott, in the parish of Church-Downe, in the county of Gloucester.

14. An act to vest the manors of Great Hallingbury and Little Hallingbury, Wallbury and Monkbury, and the forest or chase in the parish of Hatfield, in the county of Effex; and also the manor or lordship of Bluntshall, in the county of Suffolk; and the manor or lordthip of Winterton, in the county of Norfolk, in trustees, to be fold for the payment of the debts, to which the fame are subject by virtue of the will of fir Edward Turnour knt. deceased; and for laying out the furplus of the money (if any) arifing by such sale in the purchase of lands, to be fettled to the uses mentioned in the will of the faid fir Edward Turnour.

15. An act for vesting part of the estate of Moyle Breton esq; in trustees, to be fold for raising three thousand pounds charged on other part of the same eftate, and for other the purposes therein mentioned. 16. An act for sale of certain houses and lands in the town and liberties of Bridgenorth, in the county of Salop, contained in the marriage-ferb3 tle

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tlement of John Yate gent. and for the purchasing and fettling other lands of as great yearly value to the fame uses.

17. An act for exchanging the tithes and glebe-lands of and belonging to the rectory of the church of Addington, in the county of Bucks, for other lands in Addington aforesaid, to be fettled on the rector of the said church and his successors, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 18. An act for vesting the real estate - late of Elihu Yale esq; deceased, in the county of Denby, in trustees, to be fold, and applying one third part of the monies arifing by fale thereof, according to the will of Urfula Yale, his daughter, deceased, and the other two thirds for the benefit of his two other coheirs.

19. An act for repealing a power of revocation in the fettlement made on the marriage of Francis Goulston ⚫esq; and for establishing and vesting a new power instead thereof. 20. An act for confirming a conveyance of the manor of the rectory of - Great Stoughton, in the county of Huntingdon, unto fir Baldwin Conyers bart. in exchange for an annuity granted by him to the vicar of - Great Stoughton aforesaid, and his fucceffors.

21. An act for vesting certain copyhold and other lands in John Amphlett esq; in lieu of the freehold lands agreed to be purchased and fettled on him by the marriage articles of Joseph Amphlett efq; his late father, with Anne his wife, both deceased; and for making provifion for the younger children of that marriage.

22. An act for fale of two undivided third parts of the manor of Veeton and other lands in Holderness, part of the settled estate of Thomas Rand; and for applying the money arifing by fuch fale in the purchase of an entire eftaté to be fettled to the fame ufes.

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23. An act for vesting the real and personal estate of William Norton, efq; deceased, in trustees, for the purposes therein mentioned.

24. An act for the fale of the manor of Aldbury, in the parish of Mestham, and the manor of Chaldon, and other lands in the county of Surrey, part of the estate of John Southcott, efq, for the purposes therein mentioned; and for settling the capital messuage of Witham Place, and other lands in the county of Effex, of the same value, part of the estate of fir Edward • Southcott knt. father of the said John Southcott, to the like uses... 25. An act for fettling certain lands and tenements of Edward Sainthill, the elder, esq; therein mentioned, - pursuant to an agreement made on the marriage of Edward Sainthill, his fon, with Frances, the daughter of fir Walter Younge bart. 26. An act for fale of part of the estate of John Wall, for payment of debts, and for fettling other part of his eftate for the education and maintenance of his only fon. 27. An act for vesting several fums of money in the archbishop of Canterbury, and the bishop of Ely, given for the augmentation of the maintenance of poor vicars within the dioceses of Canterbury and Ely; and to impower them to lay out the fame in the purchase of lands to be vested in other trustees for the fame purposes.

28. An act for sale of part of the estate of Valentine Brown esq; commonly called lord Kenmare, in the kingdom of Ireland, for payment of debes and incumbrances affecting the fame. 29. An act to enable Thomas, now lord Southwell, and his trustees, to raise money, by making leases for lives, renewable for ever, and fee-farms, and by fale or mortgage of certain lands and hereditaments in the county of Limerick, in the kingdom of Ireland, for payment of debts and lega

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legacies, and for other purposes

therein mentioned.

30. An act for vesting certain manors, lands, and hereditaments in the kingdom of Ireland, the estate of fir Redmond Everard bart. in trustees, to be fold for raising money to difcharge incumbrances affecting the fame, and for other purposes.

31. An act to enable Mary O' Gara, widow, to fue for her jointure lands. 32. An act for vesting in trustees a messuage and garden in the parish of St. Katharine Coleman, London, the estate of Robert Thornton, and Hannah his wife, to be fold, on fettling an estate of a greater value to the fame ufes.

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33. An act for confirming a fale made by Anthony Palmer, to Lewis Buckle, esq; of certain copyhold lands and hereditaments, parcel of the manor of East Meon, in the county of Southampton, and for fettling other copyhold lands and hereditaments, part of the fame manor, of as great or greater value, to the fame uses as the faid lands fo fold now stand limited.

34. An act for fale of part of the estate of William Kinafton, esq; and for fettling other part thereof to the uses therein mentioned.

35. An act to enable Daniel Dunne, efq; by fale or mortgage of part of his eftate, to raife money to pay off and difcharge the portions of his brothers and fister, and a mortgage of one thousandeight hundred seven. ty seven pounds affecting the fame. 36. An act for vesting several quantities and parcels of South-Sea stock, and South-Sea annuities, in trustees, for payment of the debts of Charles Lowndes, gent. and for the benefit and relief of him, and Rebecca his wife.

Anno I Georgii II. ftat. 1. Cap. 1. For the better support of his

Majesty's houshold, and of the honour and dignity of the crown of Great Britain.

Cap. 2. To enable his Majesty to be governor of the South-Sea company. Cap. 3. For enabling his Majesty to fettle a revenue for fupporting the royal dignity of the Queen, in cafe she shall furvive his Majesty. Cap. 4. For continuing the imprifonment of Robert Blackburn, and others, for the horrid conspiracy to affaffinate the perfon of his late facred majesty King William the Third, of glorious memory.

Cap. 5. For making further provifions to enable persons possessed of offices at the demife of his late Majesty, to qualify themselves for the enjoyment of fuch offices, and for altering and explaining the acts of parliament therein mentioned, in relation to qualifying persons for continuing in offices; and for the continuance of the sheriffs of the county of Cornwall, and county palatine of Chester, and feveral other officers therein mentioned, after the demise of his late Majesty, his heirs and fuccessors; and for continuing fuch laws as would expire at the end of this session of parliament.

Anno 1 Georgii II. ftat. 2. Cap. 1. For continuing the duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry, in that part of Great Britain called England; and for granting to his Majefty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, for the fervice of the year 1728. and for making good the deficiency of a late malt act.

Cap. 2. For punishing mutiny and defertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. Cap. 3. For making more effectual an act paffed in the fourth year of the reign of his late majesty King George, intituled, An att for repair

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ing the highways from Maidenhead Bridge to Sunning-Lane-End, next to Twyford, in the road to Reading; and from the faid bridge to Henley Bridge in the county of Berks.

Cap. 4. For repairing the road leading from Chatteris Ferry, which divides the ifle of Ely from the county of Huntingdon, to Hammond's Eau, and from thence to Somersham Bridge, at Somersham town's end, in the faid county.

Cap. 5. For granting an aid to his Majesty by a land tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the service of the year 1728.

Cap. 6. For repairing the road from the Powder-Mills on HounslowHeath, in the county of Middlesex, to a place called Bafingstone, near the town of Bagshot, in the parish of Windlesham, in the county of Surrey.

Cap. 7. For enlarging the term granted by an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, for repairing the highways between the Bear-Inn in Reading, and Puntfield in the county of Berks, and for making the faid act more effectual, and for amending other roads in this act mentioned. Cap. 8. For granting an aid to his Majesty's by sale of annuities to the bank of England, at four pounds per centum, redeemable by parliament, and charged upon the duties on coals and culm; and for further applying the produce of the finking fund; and for enlarging the time for exchanging Nevis and St. Christopher's debentures for annuities at three per centum, and for applying the arrears of his late Majesty's civil lift revenues.

Cap. 9. For granting an aid to his Majesty of five hundred thousand pounds, towards discharging wages due to seamen, and for the constant, regular, and punctual payment of seamens wages for the future; and for appropriating the supplies grant

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ed in this present session of parliament; and for disposing of the furplus of the money granted for half pay for the year 1727.

Cap. 10. For the more effectual amending the highway between Hockliffe and Woburn, in the county of Bedford; and for repairing the road leading through Woburn to Tickford Bridge in Newport Pagnell, in the county of Bucks.

Cap. 11. For repairing and amending several roads leading to and from the borough of Evesham, in the county of Worcester.

Cap. 12. For repairing and enlarging the road leading from the house called the fign of the Bells, in the parish of St. Margaret in Rochester to Maidstone, and other roads therein mentioned, in the county of

Kent.

Cap. 13. To oblige ships coming from places infected, more effectually to perform their quarentine; and for the better preventing the plague being brought from foreign parts into Great Britain or Ireland, or the ifles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark or Man; and to hinder the spreading of infection. Cap. 14. For encouraging seamen to enter into his Majesty's service. Cap. 15. For making provision for the rector of the new church, fituate near Millbank, in the parish of St. Margaret Westminster, and for other purposes therein mentioned. Cap. 16. For removing doubts concerning the additional duty of two pence per gallon upon low wines, and spirits of the first extraction, from foreign materials; and for obviating questions relating to appeals in matters of excife; and for appointing the number of commiffioners of excife, who may hear causes depending before them.

Cap. 17. For repealing the present

duties on wine lees, and Lignum Vite, and laying new duties on wine