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the trade between the subjects of his Majesty's dominions and the inhabitants of the territories belonging to the united states of America, fo far as the same relate to the trade and commerce carried on between this kingdom and the inhabitants of the counthe tries belonging to the faid united states.

Cap. 13. For punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

Cap. 14. For appointing commissioners for putting in execution an act of this session of parliament, intituled, An att for ranting an aid to his Majesty by a land tax, to be raised in Great tain Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and the mety-one.

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Cap. 15. For granting to his Majesty an additional duty on lugar imported into this kingdom.

Cap. 16. For defraying the charge of pay and cloathing of the militia, in that part of Great Britain called England, for one year, beginning the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand even hundred and ninety-one.

Cap. 17. For cleanfing, lighting, and watching, and levelling the furfaces of the streets, and other publick places, within the hamlets of Deretend and Bordesley in the county of Warwick; and for removing and preventing nuisances, obstructions, and encroachments, and regulating the driving of carts and other carriages used for carrying goods, wares, and merchandises therein. Cap. 18. To explain and amend an act, made in the twelfth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An alt for paving, lighting, cleansing, watering, and watching the streets and other publick places, within fuch part of the parish of Saint Pancras in the county of Middlesex, as lies on the west side of Tottenham Court Road, and for preventing nuisances and obstructions therein; and for obliging the trustees for the care of the faid road, to pave, repair, and cleanse fuch part of the faid road as is therein described.

Cap. 19. For amending and enlarging the powers of, and rendering more effectual, an act made in the thirty-first year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An aft for ascertaining and collecting the poor's rates, and for better regulating the poor, in the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, in the county of Surrey, and for other the purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 20. For dividing and inclosing certain open fields, lands, and grounds, in the parish of Cottingham, in the east riding of the county of York; and for amending an act passed in the fixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for dividing, inclosing, and draining certain lands, grounds, and common pastures, in the faid parish.

Cap. 21. For granting to his Majesty an additional duty on certificates issued with respect to the killing of game.

Cap. 22. For building a new common gaol and feffion house, with accommodations thereto, for the county of Surrey, and for disposing of the present county gaol, and the ground thereto be longing.

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Cap. 23. For enlarging the term and powers of two acts made one in the twenty-second, and the other in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of King George the Second, for repairing, en larging, and preserving, the harbour of Mary Port, in the counte of Cumberland.

Cap. 24. For the better relief and employment of the poo belonging to the town of Oswestry, and to certain parishes withi the hundred of Ofweftry, in the county of Salop, and to such pan of the parish of Llanymynech as lies within the said hundred; an to the parish of Chirk, in the county of Denbigh; and to the paritl of Llanfilin, in the counties of Salop and Denbigh.

Cap. 25. For repealing the duties now charged on bills c exchange, promissory notes, and other notes, drafts, and orders and on receipts; and for granting other duties in lieu thereof. Cap. 26. To allow the importation of seal skins cured with foreign falt free of duty, for a limited time.

Cap. 27. For repealing certain duties of excise upon tanned goat skins and sheep skins, and for granting other duties in liet thereof; and also certain duties of customs on tanned goat skin imported.

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island of Newfoundland, for a limited time.

Cap. 30. For regulating the importation and exportation of corn, and the payment of the duty on foreign corn imported, and of the bounty on British corn exported.

Cap. 31. To repeal certain parts of an act, passed in the fourteenth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled, An att for making more effectual provision for the government of the province of Quebec, in North America; and to make further provision for the government of the said province.

Cap. 32. To relieve, upon conditions, and under restrictions, the persons therein described, from certain penalties and difabilities to which papifts, or persons profeffing the popish religion, are by law subject.

Cap. 33. For the payment of the sum of five hundred thoufand pounds by the governor and company of the bank of England into the receipt of his Majesty's exchequer.

Cap. 34. For enabling his Majesty to settle an annuity of twelve thousand pounds on his royal highness the duke of Clarence, during pleasure.

Cap. 35. To render persons convicted of petty larceny competent witnesses.

Cap. 36. To prevent keels, pan keels, and pan boats, and other boats, and wains and carts being used in the removal or carriage of coals, after having undergone any alterations or repairs, without being first inspected, re-admeasured, marked, and nailed. Cap. 37. To prohibit the importation into Great Britain of filk crapes and tiffanies of the manufacture of Italy, unless brought directly from thence.

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Cap. 38. To amend an act, made in the twenty-eighth year of his present Majesty's reign, for regulating the trade between the fubjects of his Majesty's colonies and plantations in North America, and in the West India islands, and the countries belonging to the united states of America; and between his Majesty's faid subjects and the foreign islands in the West Indies; and also an act, made in the twenty-feventh year of his present Majesty's reign, for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods, wares, and merchandife, in the ports of Kingston, Savannah la Mar, Montego Bay, and Santa Lucea in the island of Jamaica, in the port of Saint George in the island of Grenada, in the port of Rofea, iffand of minica, and in the port of Nassau, in the island of New Providence, one of the Bahama islands, under certain regulations and restrictions. Cap. 39. For the better regulation and government of seamen employed in the coasting trade of this kingdom.

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Cap. 40. For establishing and confirming a certain resolution or order of the governor general in council of Fort William in Bengal, and all acts done by virtue thereof; and for granting further powers to the said governor general, during his refidence on the coafts of Coromandel and Malabar.

Cap. 41. For granting to his Majesty certain sums of money out of the consolidated fund; for applying certain monies therein mentioned, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

Cap. 42. For indemnifying all persons who have been concerned in advising or carrying into execution a certain order of council respecting the importation of a limited quantity of saltpetre; for repealing the duties now payable upon the importation of faltpetre; and for granting other duties in lieu thereof.

Cap. 43. To continue several laws, relating to the granting a bounty on certain species of British and Irish linens exported, and taking off the duties on the importation of foreign raw linen yarns made of flax; to the importing salt from Europe into the province of Quebec in America; to the allowing a bounty on the exportation of British-made cordage; to continue and amend several laws relating to the encouragement of the fisheries carried on in the Greenland seas and Davis's Streights; and to the prohibiting the exportation of tools and utenfils made use of in the iron and steel manufactures of this kingdom; and to prevent the seducing of artificers and workmen employed in those manufactures to go into parts beyond the seas; and to make perpetual an act made in the fifteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, to permit the free importation of raw goat skins into this kingdom.

Cap. 44. To continue the several laws therein mentioned, so far as relates to the ascertaining the strength of spirits by Clarke's hydrometer.

Cap. 45. For the encouragement of the pilchard fishery, by allowing a further bounty upon pilchards taken, cured, and exported.

Cap. 46. Cap. 46. For the better regulating of gaols, and other places of confinement.

Cap. 47. To prevent other ships than those laden with tobacco from mooring and discharging their lading at the places appointed by an act, made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An all for repealing the duties on tobacco and Snuff, and for granting new duties in lieu thereof; to prohibit the exportation of damaged or mean tobacco; and for permitting the importation of tobacco and snuff into the port of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Cap. 48. For raising a certain sum of money by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.

Cap. 49. For raising a certain sum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for defraying the publick expences occafioned by the augmentation of his Majesty's forces, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety.

Cap. 50. For raising a further sum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.

Cap. 51. For better protecting the several oyster fisheries within this kingdom.

Cap. 52. To continue, for a limited time, an act passed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for further regulating the trade or business of pawnbrokers.

Cap. 53. For granting to his Majesty a certain sum of money, to be raised by a lottery.

Cap. 54. To continue for a limited time, and to amend an act made in the last session of parliament, intituled, An att to amend and continue, for a limited time, several acts of parliament for regulating the shipping and carrying slaves in British veffels from the coast of Africa.

Cap. 55. For establishing a company for carrying on trade between the kingdom of Great Britain and the coasts, harbours, and countries of Africa; and for enabling the said company to hold, by grant from his Majesty, his heirs and successors, and from the native princes of Africa, a certain district of land, commonly called The Peninsula of Sierra Leone, now vested in his Majesty, or belonging to the said princes, for the better enabling the faid company to carry on the faid trade.

Cap. 56. More effectually to prevent abuses and frauds committed by persons employed in the manufactures of combing wool and worsted yarn, in the county of Norfolk, and city of Norwich and county of the faid city.

Cap. 57. For building and maintaining a bridewell and correction house in and for the city and county of Edinburgh.

Cap. 58. For the better regulation and government of the company of cutlers, within the liberty of Hallamshire, in the county of York, and within fix miles of the said liberty, and of their journeymen and apprentices.

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Cap. 59. For making and maintaining a navigable canal from, or from near to, the town of Birmingham, in the county of War wick, to communicate with the river Severn, near to the city of Worcester.

Cap. 60. For building a bridge, near the ferry over the river Ouze, from Selby, in the west riding of the county of York, to the opposite shore, in the parish of Hemingborough, in the east riding of the said county.

Cap. 61. For paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, widening, regulating, and improving, a certain street called The Upper Ground Street, in the parish of Christ Church, in the county of Surrey, and certain other streets, lanes, passages, and places, within the said parish; and for removing and preventing encroachments, nuisances, and annoyances therein; and for shutting up part of an alley or passage leading from Bull Alley to Marygold Court.

Cap. 62. For widening, improving, regulating, paving, cleanfing, and lighting the streets, lanes, and other publick passages and places, within the King's town of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, for remo removing and preventing encroachments, obftructions, nuisances and annoyances therein; for better supplying the said town with water, and for repairing the highways within the parish of Maidstone.

Cap. 63. For repealing an act, made in the eighteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An att for paving of the city of Chichester, and for the better paving, repairing and cleanfing, the streets, lanes, and publick ways and passages within the walls of the said city, and for removing and preventing encroachments, obstructions, and annoyances therein.

Cap. 64. For repairing, paving, and cleansing the highways, streets, and lanes, within the town and borough of Deal, in the county of Kent, and for removing and preventing encroachments, obstructions, nuisances, and annoyances therein.

Cap. 65. For making and maintaining a navigable communication between the Loughborough canal and the town of Leicester, and for making and maintaining a communication by railways or stone roads, and water levels, from several places and mines to the faid Loughborough canal, and for continuing the fame, by paffing along the said canal to the faid navigable communication, all in the county of Leicester.

Cap. 66. To enable the earl of Egremont to make and maintain the river Rother navigable from the town of Midhurst to a certain meadow called The Railed Pieces, or Stopham Meadow, in the parish of Stopham, and a navigable cut from the faid river to the river Arun, at or near Stopham Bridge, in the county of Suffex, and for other purposes.

Cap. 67. To enable the company of proprietors of the Thames and Severn canal navigation to borrow a further fum of money to compleat the said navigation.

Cap. 68. For making and maintaining a navigable canal from Manchester to or near Presto-lee Bridge, in the township of Little