Cap. 6. For continuing and granting to his Majefty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and fixty feven.

Cap. 7. For indemnifying such perfons as have acted for the fervice of the publick, in advising or carrying into execution the order of council of the twenty fixth day of September last, for laying an embargo on all fhips laden with wheat or wheat flour; and for preventing fuits in confequence of the faid embargo.

Cap. 8. For allowing the importation of oats and oatmeal, rye and ryemeal, into this kingdom, for a limited time, free of duty.

Cap. 9. For obviating doubts which have arifen with refpect to fo much of an act made in the firft year of the reign of his present Majefty, intituled (An act to amend an att paffed in the eighteenth year of the reign of King George the Second, concerning the qualification of justices of the peace, and for other purposes therein mentioned) as directs the taking of certain oaths by justices of the peace, on the iffuing of any new commiffion of the peace.

Cap. 10. For punishing mutiny and defertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

Cap. 11. For allowing the importation of wheat and wheat flour, free of duty, from any part of Europe, for a further time than is allowed by any act made in this feffion of parliament; and for permitting the free importation of barley, barley-meal, and pulle, into this kingdom, for a limited time.

Cap. 12. To difcontinue, for a limited time, the duties payable upon the importation of tallow, hogs-lard, and grease. Cap. 13. For the regulation of his Majefty's marine forces while on fhore.

Cap. 14. For granting an aid to his Majesty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thoufand feven hundred and fixty seven.

Cap. 15. For giving further time to his Majefty's lieutenants, deputy lieutenants, juftices, and clerks of the peace, and others, for carrying into execution certain parts of an act paffed in the laft feffon, for pay and cloathing of the militia; and for indemnifying fuch lieutenants, deputy lieutenants, and clerks of the peace, and others, who have neglected to carry such parts of the faid act into execution.

Cap. 16. For raifing a certain fum of money by loans or exchequer bills, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hun dred and fixty seven.

Cap. 17. 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 thoufand feven hundred and fixty feven; for the more effectually punishing ferjearts, drummers, and fifers, for misbehaviour and defertion; for fecuring deferters from the militia regiments; and for explaining and amending fo much of an act paffed in the last feflion of parliament, as relates to inlifting militia men into his Majefty's other forces.

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Cap. 18. To enable the trustees of the British museum to exchange, fell, or dispose of, any duplicates of printed books, me dals, coins, or other curiofities; and for laying out the money arifing by fuch fale in the purchase of other things that may be wanting in, or proper for, the faid museum.

Cap. 19. To enable his Majefty to fettle certain annuities on their royal highneffes the dukes of York, Gloucester, and Cumberland.

Cap. 20. For granting to his Majefty additional duties upon baft, or straw, chip, cane, and horse hair hats and bonnets, and upon certain materials for making the fame, imported into this kingdom.

Cap. 21. To obviate inconveniencies which may arise with refpect to the execution of several acts of parliament in such cities, boroughs, towns corporate, franchises, and liberties, as have only one juftice of the peace of the quorum qualified to act within the fame.

Cap. 22. For further allowing the importation of wheat and wheat flour, barley, barley-meal, and pulfe, free of duty, into this kingdom from any part of Europe.

Cap. 23. To prevent frauds and abufes in the admeasurement of coals, fold by wharf measure, within the city of London, and the liberties thereof; and between Tower Dock and Limehouse Hole in the county of Middlesex.

Cap. 24. For raising the fum of one million five hundred thousand pounds, by way of annuities and a lottery, attended with annuities to be charged on the finking fund.

Cap. 25. For redeeming one fourth part of the joint stock of annuities established by an act made in the third year of his prefent Majefty's reign, intituled, An att for granting to his Majesty feveral additional duties upon wines imported into this kingdom; and certain duties upon all cyder and perry; and for raising the fum of three millions five hundred thousand pounds by way of annuities and lotteries, to be charged on the faid duties.

Cap. 26. For redeeming the remainder of the joint stock of annuities established by an act made in the third year of his pre fent Majefty's reign, in refpect of several navy, victualling, and tranfport bills, and ordnance debentures.

Cap. 27. For extending the royalty of the city of Edinburgh over certain adjoining lands; and for giving powers to the magiftrates of Edinburgh for the benefit of the faid city; and to enable his Majefty to grant letters patent for establishing a theatre. in the city of Edinburgh, or fuburbs thereof.

Cap. 28. For granting to his Majefty additional duties upon certain linen cloth imported; and for carrying fuch duties, together with the additional duties granted in this feffion of parlia ment upon the importation of baft or straw, chip, cane, and horfe hair hats and bonnets, and certain materials for making the fame, to the finking fund.

Cap. 29. For explaining an act made in the twenty ninth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, to prevent extortion in sheriffs,

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Cap. 30. For allowing the free importation of rice, fago pow der, and vermicelli, into this kingdom, from his Majesty's colonies in North America, for a limited time.

Cap. 31. To indemnify fuch perfons as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments; and to indemnify juftices of the peace, deputy lieutenants, and officers of the militia, or others, who have omitted to register or deliver in their qualifications within the time limited by law, and for giving further time for thofe purposes; and to indemnify members and officers in cities, corporations, and borough towns, whofe admiffions have been omitted to be ftamped according to law, or, having been stamped, have been loft or miflaid, and for allowing them time to provide admiffions duly stamped; 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.

Cap. 32. For applying the money granted, in this feffion of parliament, for carrying on an additional building for a more commodious paffage to the house of commons, from Saint Margaret's Lane and Old Palace Yard.

Cap. 33. To inforce, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, the execution of an act of the last feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for repealing the feveral duties upon houses, windows, and lights; and for granting to his Majesty other duties upon houses, windows, and lights; and for explaining the said act.

Cap. 34. For allowing further time for inrollment of deeds and wills made by papifts; and for relief of proteftant purchasers. Cap. 35. To continue feveral laws therein mentioned, relating to the clandeftine running of uncuftomed goods, and preventing frauds relating to the cuftoms; to prevent the clandeftine running of goods, and the danger of infection thereby; to the granting liberty to carry rice from his Majefty's provinces of Carolina and Georgia, in America, directly to any part of Europe fouthward of Cape Finisterre, in fhips built and navigated according to law; and to the prohibiting the importation of books reprinted abroad, and firft compofed, written, and printed, in Great Britain.

Cap. 36. To continue fo much of an act made in the thirty third year of the reign of his late Majefty, as relates to the free importation of cochineal and indico; and for allowing the bounties granted by any acts of parliament now in being upon the exportation of corn and malt declared or made for exportation, and barley steeped and entered at the excife office to be made into malt for exportation, before a limited time.

Cap. 37. For completing the bridge cross the river Thames, from Black Fryars in the city of London, to the oppofite fide in the county of Surry, and the avenues thereto on the London fide; for redeeming the tolls on the faid bridge, and on London Bridge; for rebuilding the gaol of Newgate in the faid city; for repairing

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the Royal Exchange within the fame; for embanking part of the north fide of the faid river, within certain limits; and for further continuing, towards thofe purposes, the impofition of fix pence per chaldron, or ton, of coals and culm imported into the port of the faid city, established by an act of the fifth and fixth years of the reign of King William and Queen Mary; and alfo for carrying on the new pavements in the city and liberties of Westminster, and parishes adjacent, and in the town and borough of Southwark; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 38. To amend and render more effectual an act made in the eighth year of the reign of King George the Second, for encouragement of the arts of defigning, engraving, and etching, hiftorical and other prints; and for vesting in, and fecuring to, Jane Hogarth widow, the property in certain prints.

Cap. 39. For the better regulation of the parish poor children, of the feveral parishes therein mentioned, within the bills of mortality.

Cap. 40. To explain, amend, and reduce into one act of parliament, the general laws now in being for regulating the turnpike roads of this kingdom; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 41. To enable his Majefty to put the customs, and other duties, in the British dominions in America, and the execution of the laws relating to trade there, under the management of commiffioners to be appointed for that purpose, and to be refident in the faid dominions.

Cap. 42. To explain, amend, and reduce into one act of parliament, the feveral statutes now in being for the amendment and prefervation of the publick highways of this kingdom; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 43. To amend and enforce the acts of the eighteenth, twenty first, and thirty fecond years of the reign of his late majefty King George the Second, for the more effectual preventing the fraudulent importation and wearing of cambricks and French lawns.

Cap. 44. For altering the stamp duties upon policies of affurance; and for reducing the allowance to be made in refpect of the prompt payment of the ftamp duties on licences for retailing beer, ale, and other excifeable liquors; and for explaining and amending several acts of parliament relating to hackney coaches and chairs,

Cap. 45. For encouraging and regulating the trade and manufactures of the Isle of Man; and for the more easy supply of the inhabitants there with a certain quantity of wheat, barley, oats, meal, and flour, authorized by an act made in this feffion to be tranfported to the faid ifland.

Cap. 46. For granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for allowing a drawback of the duties of cuftoms upon the exportation, from this kingdom, of coffee and cocoa nuts of the produce of the faid colonies or plantations; for difcontinuing the drawbacks payable on china

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earthen ware exported to America; and for more effectually pre venting the clandeftine running of goods in the said colonies and plantations.

Cap. 47. For difcontinuing the duties on logwood exported; før taking off the duties on Succus Liquoritia imported, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof; for explaining such parts of two acts made in the tenth and twelfth years of the reign of Queen Anne, as relate to certain duties on filks, printed, painted, or stained, in Great Britain; for granting a duty upon the exportation of fuch rice as shall have been imported dutyfree, in pursuance of an act made in this feffion of parliament; and for more effectually preventing the wear of foreign lace and peedle work which are prohibited to be imported into this kingdom.

Cap. 48. For regulating the proceedings of certain publick companies and corporations carrying on trade or dealings with joint ftocks, in refpect to the declaring of dividends; and for further regulating the qualification of members for yoting in their refpective general courts.

Cap. 49. For regulating certain proceedings of the general courts of the united company of merchants of England trading to the east Indies,

Cap. 50. For amending certain laws relating to the revenue of the poft office; and for granting rates of poftage for the conveyance of letters and packets between Great Britain and the Ife of Man, and within that ifland.

Cap. 51. For improving the navigation of the river Lee, from the town of Hertford to the river Thames; and for extending the faid navigation to the flood-gates belonging to the town mill, in the faid town of Hertford.

Cap. 52. For erecting a proper and convenient pier at the port of Saint Ives, in the county of Cornwall, for the better protection of fhips and veffels reforting to the faid port.

Cap. 53. For draining and preferving fen lands, and low grounds lying in the fouth level, part of the great level of the fens commonly called Bedford Level, and in the county of Cambridge, between the river Cam, otherwise Grant, weft, and the hardlands of Bottisham, Swaffham-Bulbeck, and Swaffham-Prior, east; and for impowering the governor, bailiffs, and commonalty of the company of confervators of the great level of the fens commonly called Bedford Level, to fell certain fen lands lying within the limits aforefaid, commonly called Invested Lands.

Cap. 54. For granting to his Majefty a certain fum of money out of the finking fund, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and fixty feven; and for further appropriating the fupplies granted in this feffion of parliament; for carrying to the aggregate fund a fum of money which hath arifen by the two fevenths excife; for impowering his Majefty, with the advice of his privy council, to permit the importation of any fort of corn or grain, duty-free, into this kingdom, for a longer time than is permit

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