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Anno 23 Georgii II. Cap. 1. OR reducing the feveral annuities, which now carry an interest after the rate of four pounds per centum per annum, to the feveral rates of intereft therein mentioned.

Cap. 2. For granting an aid to his Majefty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty.

Cap. 3. For continuing and granting to his Majefty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry, for the fervice of the year one thoufand feven hundred and fifty, Cap. 4. For punishing mutiny and defertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quar

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Cap. 5. For enlarging the term and powers granted by an act paffed in the fifth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, for repairing and amending the roads leading from the town of Manchester in the county of Lancafter, through the town of Afbton under Line, and parish of Mottram Longdendale, and from thence to Salters Brook in the county palatine of Chefter. Cap. 6. For repairing, improving and maintaining the haven and piers of Great Yarmouth; and for depthning, and making more navigable the several rivers emptying themselves into the said haven; and also for preserving fhips, wintering therein, from accidents by fire. VOL. XX.

Cap. 7. For enlarging the term and powers granted and continued by two former acts of parliament, for repairing, widening and amending the roads from Wigan to Prefton in the county palatine of Lancafter; and for making the faid acts more effectual.

Cap. 8. For enlarging the term and powers granted and continued by two acts of parliament, for amending the highways leading from Brampton Bridge, to Welford Bridge in the county of Northampton, and the great poft road from Morter Pitt Hill to Chain Bridge, leading into Market Harborough in the county of Leicester; and for explaining and making more effectual the faid acts; and alfo for repairing the roads leading from Morter Pitt Hill and Brampton Bridge to the town of Northampton.

Cap. 9. For repealing the duties now payable upon China raw filk, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof.

Cap. 10. For enlarging the term and powers granted by an act paffed in the fourth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, For repairing the road leading from the town of Fulham in the county of Middlefex, through Fulham fields, to the great road near the pound at Hammersmith, in the faid county.

Cap. 11. To render profecutions for perjury, and fubornation of perjury, more eafy and effectual. Cap. 12. For improving the naviga

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tion of the river Loyne, otherwise called Lune; and for building a quay or wharf, near the town of Lancaster, in the county palatine of Lancaster.

Cap. 13. For the effectual punishing of perfons convicted of feducing artificers in the manufactures of Great Britain or Ireland, out of the dominions of the crown of Great Britain; and to prevent the exportation of utenfils made ufe of in the woollen and filk manufactures from Great Britain or Ireland, into foreign parts; and for the more eafy and fpeedy determination of appeals, allowed in certain cafes, by an act made in the last feflion of parliament, relating to perfons employed in the feveral manufactures therein mentioned.

Cap. 14. For affigning a place proper for holding the market in the city of Westminster, in lieu of the ancient market place called the Round Woolftaple; and for regulating the faid market.

Cap, 15. For taking down feveral buildings, and inlarging the streets and market places in the city of Gloucester.

Cap. 16. For granting to his Majefty

the fum of one million to be raised by annuities at three pounds per centum per annum, and charged on the finking fund, transferrable at the bank of England.

Cap. 17. For repairing the roads leading from Dunglas Bridge to the town of Haddington; and from thence to Ravenshaughburn in the county of Haddington.

Cap. 18. For enlightning the open places, streets, lanes, paffages and courts; and for the better regulating the nightly watch, within the parish of Saint John Southwark in the county of Surrey.

Cap. 19. For making more effectual

feveral acts of parliament paffed for cleanfing and making navigable

the channel from the Hithe at Colchefter to Wivenhoe in the county of Effex; and for repairing and cleanfing the streets and lanes of the town of Calchefter.

Cap. 20. For encouraging the growth and culture of raw filk in his Majefty's colonies or plantations in America.

Cap. 21. For granting to his Majefty the fum of nine hundred thoufand pounds out of the finking fund, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty; and for applying certain furplus monies remaining in the exchequer, as part of the fupply of the faid year; and for the application of certain favings in the hands of the paymaster general; and for obviating a doubt in an act of the fifth year of King George the First, in respect to the payment of certain annuities thereby granted for the improvement of filheries and manufactures in Scotland; and for the further appropriating the fupplies granted this feffion of parliament; and for giving further time for the payment of duties omitted to be paid for the indentures or contracts of clerks and apprentices; and for transferring the bounties now payable upon the exportation of British fail cloth, to the customs; and for enforcing the laws against the clandeftine importation of foap, candles, and starch, into this kingdom.

Cap. 22. For giving further time to the proprietors of annuities, after the rate of four pounds per centum per annum, to subscribe the fame in the manner and upon the terms therein mentioned; and for redeeming fuch of the faid annuities, as fhall not be fo fubfcribed; and for impowering the East India company to raise certain fums by transferrable annuities.

Cap. 23. To continue feveral laws

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for preventing the fpreading of the distemper which now rages amongst the horned cattle, and for impowering his Majefty to prohibit the killing of cow calves.

Cap. 24. For the encouragement of the British white herring fithery. Cap. 25. For making good a deficien

cy upon the revenue of the office of keeper or clerk of the hanaper, and for preventing any future deficiency therein, to anfwer the publick fervices provided for out of the fame; and for augmenting the income of the office of master or keeper of the rolls.

Cap. 26. To continue feveral laws for the better regulating of pilots, for the conducting of fhips and veffels from Dover, Deal, and Ifle of Thanet, up the rivers of Thames and Medway; and for permitting rum or fpirits of the British fugar plantations to be landed before the duties of excife are paid thereon; and to continue and amend an act for preventing frauds in the admeasurement of coals within the city and liberty of Westminster, and feveral parishes near thereunto; and to continue feveral laws for preventing exactions of occupiers of locks and wears upon the river Thames weftward, and for afcertaining the rates of water carriage upon the faid river; and for the better regulation and government of feamen in the merchants fervice; and alfo to amend so much of an act made in the first year of the reign of King George the First, as relates to the better prefervation of falmon in the river Ribble; and to regulate fees in trials at affizes, and Nifi Prius, upon records iffuing out of the office of pleas of the court of exchequer; and for the apprehending of perfons in any county or place, upon warrants granted by juftices of the peace in any other county or place; and to

repeal fo much of an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, as relates to the time during which the office of excife is to be kept open each day, and to appoint for how long time the fame fhall be kept open upon each day for the future; and to prevent the stealing or deftroying of turnips; and to amend an act made in the second year of his present Majefty, for better regulation of attornies and folicitors. Cap. 27. For the more eafy and fpeedy recovery of fmall debts within the city and liberty of Westminster, and that part of the dutchy of Lancafter which adjoineth thereto. Cap. 28. To explain part of an act paffed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of the reign of King Charles the Second, for the uniformity of publick prayers, and adminiftration of facraments; and alfo part of an act paffed in the thirteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth for the minifters of the church to be of found religion. Cap. 29. To encourage the importation of pig and bar iron from his Majesty's colonies in America; and to prevent the erection of any mill or other engine for flitting or rolling of iron, or any plateing forge to work with a tilt hammer, or any furnace for making steel, in any of the faid colonies.

Cap. 30. For the more eafy and speedy recovery of fmall debts within the Tower Hamlets.

Cap. 31. For extending and improv

ing the trade to Africa.

Cap. 32. For granting to his Majesty certain duties upon fuch fpecies of fail cloth as are therein mentioned, which shall be imported from Ireland into Great Britain, during the time therein limited.

Cap. 33. For preventing delays and

expences in the proceedings in the county court of Middlefex; and

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Yet for the more easy and speedy recovery of fmall debts in the faid county courtis

Cap. 34. For permitting raw filk of the growth or produce of Perfia, purchased in Ruffia, to be imported into this kingdom, from any port or place belonging to the empire of Ruffia.

-Cap. 35. For making a better and

more effectual provifion for the relief of the poor, for the cleanting the streets, and for keeping a nightly watch, within the parith of Saint Martin in the Fields, within the liberties of the city of Westminfler. Cap. 36. For fettling a ftipend or

maintenance upon the rector of the The parish of Saint George the Martyr, in the borough of Southwark, in the county of Surrey, and his fucceffors, in lieu of tythes.

Cap. 37. For building a bridge cross the river of Thames, from Hampton Court in the county of Middlefex, to Eaft Moulfey in the county of Surrey.

Cap. 38. For repairing the road from the city of York over Skipbridge, to Boroughbridge in the county of York. Cap. 39. For the more effectual repairing and preferving the piers and harbour of Whitby in the county of York.

Cap. 40. For repairing and widening >the roads leading from Egremont to

Dudden Bridge, Santon Bridge, and Salthoufe, in the county of Cumberland.

Private As.

Anno 23 Georgii II.

1. An act for naturalizing Thomas Abraham Ogier, Peter Henry Gauvain, and others.

2. An act for naturalizing Charles Lindegren.

3. An act for naturalizing Henry Foly.

4. An act for naturalizing Germain "Lavie.

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5. An act for vesting in trustees certain leases and eftates therein mentioned, of and in the manors of Spalding and Holbeck, and of feveral lands, tenements and hereditaments to the fame belonging, in the county of Lincoln, which were forfeited by James late duke of Monmouth, put in exigènt upon an indictment of high treafon, to the intent that the lots of the record of fuch indictment, and of the Capias and exigent thereon, may be fupplied for the purposes therein mentioned..

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An act to impower the committees of Thomas earl of Bradford, a lunatick, to lay out part of his perfonal eftate in the purchase of lands and eftates of inheritance for the purposes therein mentioned.

An act to enable his Majefty to grant the inheritance of the manor of Garstang in the county of Lancafter, and of a meffuage or tenement in Newbigginge in Lonfdale, in the county of Westmoreland, to trustees, in trust for the honourable Edward Walpole efquire, and his heirs, upon a full and valuable confideration to be paid for the fame, An act to enable Roger Mortlock, doctor in divinity, now called Roger Pettiward, and the heirs of his body, to take and use the furname and arms of Pettiward.

9. An act to enable Beckford Kendall

efquire, now called Beckford Kendall
Cater, and his iffue male, to take
and use the furname and arms of
Cater.

10. An act for naturalizing John
Peter Mandret, Lewis Chabanel,
William de Drufina, and others.
II. An act for naturalizing Ifaac
Schomberg, doctor in phyfick.

12. An act for naturalizing Engelbert Hake.

13. An act to impower the guardians of Henry earl of Pembroke and Montgomery, an infant, to make

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