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TABLE

OF THE

STATUTES

PUBLICK and PRIVATE,

Passed Anno tricefimo fecundo

GEORGII III. Regis:

Being the Second Session of the Seventeenth Parliament of Great Britain.

Cap. 1.

PUBLICK ACTS.

O extend the provisions of certain acts of parliament made to regulate the trials of controverted elections, or returns of members to serve in parliament. Cap. 2. To repeal the duties on certain inhabited houses containing less than seven windows, or lights, granted by an act of the fixth year of the reign of his present Majesty.

Cap. 3. For repealing the duties on female servants.

Cap. 4. For repealing the duties on waggons, wains, carts, and other carriages, granted by an act of the twenty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty.

Cap. 5. For granting an aid to his Majesty by a land tax, to be raised in ed in Great Britain, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.

Cap. 6. For repealing the duties upon malt, granted by an act made in the thirty-first year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for granting to his Majesty additional duties upon malt.

Cap. 7. For repealing a certain part of the duty upon all can

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Cap. 8. For the more effectual preventing of frauds in the re venue of excife by common brewers.

Cap. 9. For repealing certain regulations with respect to certificates on exporting tea to Ireland or America.

Cap. 10. For the better execution of certain warrants issued for the apprehending and committing persons convicted of offences against the excise laws.

Cap. 11. To compel auctioneers to declare whether sales have been held under the notices now required to be given by law.

Cap. 12. For granting to his Majesty the fun of four hundred thousand pounds, to be issued and paid to the governor and company of the bank of England, to be by them placed to the account of the commiffioners for the reduction of the national debt.

Cap. 13. To enable his Majesty to make provision for the eftablishment of their royal highnesses the duke and duchess of York and Albany; and also to settle an annuity on her royal highnefs during the time of her natural life, to commence from the decease of his faid royal highness, in case her said royal highness thall furvive him.

Cap. 14. To continue the laws now in force for regulating 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 fame relate to the trade and commerce carried on between this kingdom and the inhabitants of the countries belonging to the said united states.

Cap. 15. For raising a certain sum of money by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.

Cap. 16. For raising a further fum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.

Cap. 17. For the regulation of his Majesty's marine forces wl ile on thore.

Cap. 18. For continuing and granting to his Majesty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.

Cap. 19. For punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

Cap. 20. For providing a workhouse for the reception of the poor of the parith of Stone, in the county of Stafford, and for regulating and employing the poor therein.

Cap. 21. For the more effectual prevention of frauds in the revenue of excife with respect to the manufactering of foap.

Cap. 22. To continue and amend feveral laws relating to the encouragement of the fisheries carried on in the Greenland feas and Davis's Streights; and to amend the laws now in force for the encouragement of the fitheries carried on in the feas to the touthward of the Greenland seas and Davis's Streights.

Cap. 23. For rectitying mistakes in the names of several of the commiffioners appointed by an act made in the last feffion

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of parliament, to put in execution an act made in the fame feffion, intituled, An att for granting an aid to bis Majesty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one; and for appointing Other commiffioners, together with those named in the first mentioned act, to put in execution an act of this session of parliament, for granting an aid to his Majesty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain for the service of the year one thousand Seven hundred and ninety two; and for indemnifying such persons as have acted as commiffioners for executing the faid act, for granting an aid to bis Majesty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.

Cap. 24. To repeal so much of an act, made in the twentyseventh year of his present Majesty, as relates to the fale of the houfe in Privy Garden, heretofore used as an office for the commiffioners of the lottery; and to enable his Majesty to grant the faid premises.

Cap. 25. To enable the governor and company of the bank of Scotland, further to increase the capital stock of the faid company.

Cap. 26. For defraying the charge of the 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 seven hundred and ninety-two.

Cap. 27. To indemnify such persons as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments; and to indemnify justices of the peace, or others, who have omitted to regifter or deliver in their qualifications within the time limited by law, and for giving further time for those purposes; and to indemnify members and officers, in cities, corporations, and borough towns, whose admiffions have been omitted to be stamped ac+ cording to law, or, having been stamped, have been loft or miflaid; and for allowing them time to provide admiffions duly stamped; to give further time to such perfons as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and folicitors; for indemnifying deputy lieutenants and officers of the militia, who have neglected to transmit descriptions of their qualifications to the clerks of the peace within the time limited by law; and for giving further time for that purpose; and for allowing further time to such persons as have omitted to pay the duties on the indentures and contracts of clerks, apprentices, or servants.

Cap. 28. For granting to his Majesty a certain sum of money, to be raised by a lottery.

Cap. 29. For establishing a perminent fund for the relief and fupport of skippers and keelmen employed in the coal trade on the river Wear, in the county of Durham, who by fickness, or other accidental misfortunes, or by old age, thall not be able to maintain themselves and their families; and also for the relief of the widows and children of such skippers and keelmen. Cap. 30.

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Cap. 30. For taking down the church, chancel, and tower belonging to the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen, in Bridgenorth, in the county of Salop, and for rebuilding the fame, and for enlarging the burial ground of the said parith.

Cap. 31. For more effectually embanking, draining, and otherwise improving, the island of Canvay, in the county of Effex.

Cap. 32. To revive and continue so much of an act, made in the fixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, as relates to the conveyance of theep between Cowes in the ifle of Wight, and the ports of Southampton and Portsmouth; and to extend the same to horses and lambs; and to amend the said act.

Cap. 33. For explaining and amending an act, passed in the thirty-first year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An act for the encouragement of seamen empleyed in the royal navy, and for establishing a regular method for the punctual, frequent, and certain payment of their wages; and for enabling them more easily and readily to remit the same for the fuppert of their wives and families; and for preventing frauds and abuses attending fuch payments; and for further extending the benefits thereof to petty officers and seamen, non-commiffioned officers of marines, and marines, serving, or who may have served, on board any of his Majesty's ships.

Cap. 34. For explaining and amending an act, passed in the twenty-fixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled,

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alt for the further preventing frauds and abuses attending the payment of wages, prize money, and other allowances, due for the fervice of petty officers and feamen on board any of his Majesty's ships; and for further extending the benefits thereof to petty officers and seamen, non-commiffioned officers of marines, and marines, serving, or who may have served, on board any of his Majesty's ships.

Cap. 35. For granting to his Majesty a certain sum of money out of the consolidated fund; and for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two; for further appropriating the supplies granted in this fession of parliament; and for making forth duplicates of exchequer bills, lottery tickets, certificates, receipts, annuity orders, or other orders, loft, burnt, or otherwise destroyed.

Cap. 36. To continue several laws therein mentioned, relating to the discontinuing the duties payable upon the importation of tallow, hogs lard, and grease; to the free importation of certain raw hides and skins from Ireland and the British plantations in America; 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 feas; to the better regulating of pilots, for the conducting of ships and vessels from Dover, Deal, and the Isle of Thanet; 10 the afcertaining the strength of spirits by Clark's, hydrometer; and

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and to the allowing the importation of seal skins, cured with foreign falt, free of duty.

Cap. 37. For making perpetual an act made in the twentyfeventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods, wares, and merchandise, 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 Roseau in the island of Dominica, and in the port of Nassau in the island of New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands, under certain regulations and restrictions.

Cap. 38. For building a bridge over the river South Efk, at or near the town of Montrose, in the county of Forfar; and for making fuitable approaches thereto.

Cap. 39. To enable the inhabitants of the parish of Saint Botolph without Aldersgate, in the city of London, to raise money for paying and discharging the debts that have been contracted in repairing their parish church, and building a new workhouse.

Cap. 40. For amending the laws of excise relating to the manufactory of flint glass.

Cap. 41. To exempt whale oil, and other articles therein mentioned, and fold by auction in Great Britain, from the duty imposed on fuch fales.

Cap. 42. To empower the high court of chancery to lay out a further fum of the suitors money upon proper securities, and for applying the interest towards discharging the expences of the office of the accountant general, and for building offices for the masters in ordinary in chancery, and a publick office for the suitors of the faid court, and offices for the fecretaries of bankrupts and lunaticks, and for building repositories for securing the title deeds of the fuitors of the said court, and the records and proceedings of the commissioners of bankrupts and lunaticks.

Cap. 43. For regulating the allowance of the drawback and payment of the bounty on the exportation of fugar; and for permitting the importation of fugar and coffee into the Bahama and Bermuda islands, in foreign ships.

Cap. 44. For extending the provisions of an act, made in the thirteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act to impower the magistrates therein mentioned to fettle and regulate the wages of persons employed in the filk manufacture within their respective jurisdictions, to manufactories of filk mixed with other materials; and for the more effectual punishment of buyers and receivers of filk purloined and embezzled by persons employed in the manufacture thereof.

Cap. 45. To explain and amend an act, made in the seventeenth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An act to amend and make more effectual the laws relating to rogues, vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly perfons, and to houses of correction.

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Cap. 46.