PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS, Passed in the Sixth Session of the Fifth Parliament of the United AN act to repeal an act made in the last session of parliament, intituled An act to continue an act to empower his Majesty to 'secure and detain such persons as his Majesty shall suspect are 'conspiring against his person and government.' An act to suspend, until the end of the present session of parliament, the operation of an act made in the last session of parliament, to provide for the more deliberate investigation of presentments to be made by grand juries for roads and public works in Ireland, and for accounting for money raised by such presentments. An act for continuing to his Majesty certain duties on malt, sugar, tobacco, and snuff, in Great Britain; and on pensions, offices, and personal estates, in England; for the service of the year 1818. An act for raising the sum of thirty millions, by exchequer bills, for the service of the year 1818. An act to indemnify such persons in the united kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th day of March, 1819; and to permit such have omitted to make and file persons in Great Britain as affidavits of the execution of and solicitors, to make and file indentures of clerks to attornies day of Hilary term, 1819; and to the same on or before the first allow persons to make and file such affidavits although the persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out their annual certificates. sons who, since the 26th day of An act for indemnifying perJanuary, 1817, have acted in apprehending, imprisoning, or suspected of high treason. detaining in custody persons treasonable practices, and in the suppression of tumultuous and unlawful assemblies. or An act to indemnify all persons who have been concerned into execution any order or in advising, issuing, or carrying orders for permitting the importation and exportation of certain bottoms into and out of certain goods and commodities in foreign of his Majesty's West India islands. An act to authorize the goCharles the 2nd for ancient and vernors of the hospital of king * maimed officers and soldiers of the army of Ireland (usually called the royal hospital at Kilmainham), to suspend or take away the pensions of such pensioners of the said hospital as shall be guilty of any fraud in respect of prize-money or pensions, or of any other gross misconduct. An act to further continue, until the 5th day of July, 1818, two acts of the 54th year of his present Majesty, for repealing the duties of customs on madder imported into Great Britain, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof. An act to rectify a mistake in an act, passed in the 55th year of the reign of his present Majesty, for punishing mutiny and desertion, and to indemnify certain persons in relation thereto. An act for punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. An act for the regulating of his Majesty's royal marine forces while on shore. An act for charging duties on licences for retailing aqua vitæ in Scotland. An act to amend an act of the last session of parliament, for preventing the further circulation of dollars and tokens issued by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. An act to amend an act made in the 26th year of his present Majesty, for the encouragement of the fisheries carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights, so far as relates to the oaths thereby required to be taken. An act to continue until the 5th day of April, 1819, and amend an act of the 56th year of his present Majesty, for reducing the duties payable on horses used for the purposes therein mentioned. An act for charging certain duties on four-wheeled carriages constructed and drawn in the manner therein described. An act to charge an additional duty on corks ready-made, imported into Ireland. An act to allow for three years, and until six weeks after the commencement of the then next session of parliament, the importation into ports specially ap pointed by his Majesty, within the provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, of the articles therein enumerated, and the re-exportation thereof from such ports. An act for more effectually discovering the longitude at sea, and encouraging attempts to find a Northern passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, and to approach the Northern pole. An act to revive and continue, until the 5th day of July, 1819, several laws relating to the duties on glass made in Great Britain; and to prohibit the making of smalts within a certain distance of any other glass house, or by the maker of any other kind of glass. An act for fixing the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers. An act for raising the sum of three millions, by the transfer of certain 31. per centum annuities, into other annuities, at the rate of of 31. 10s. per centum; and for granting annuities to discharge certain Exchequer Bills. An act for enabling his Majesty to make further provision for his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and to settle an annuity on the Princess of Hesse, in case she shall survive his said Royal Highness. An act for enabling his Majesty to settle an annuity on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cumberland, in case of her surviving his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. An act to continue, until the 5th day of July, 1819, two acts made in the 54th and 56th years of his present Majesty's reign, for regulating the trade in spirits between Great Britain and Ireland reciprocally, and to amend the same. An act to permit the importation of certain articles into his Majesty's colonies or plantations in the West-Indies, or on the continent of South America; and also certain articles into certain ports in the West-Indies. An act to repeal an act made in the 56th year of his present Majesty's reign, for establishing the use of an hydrometer called Sikes's hydrometer, in ascertaining the strength of spirits, instead of Clarke's hydrometer; and for making other provisions in lieu thereof. An act for regulating the payment of fees for pardons under the great seal. An act for preventing frivolous and vexatious actions of assault and battery, and for slanderous words, in courts. An act to amend an act passed An act to alter the allowance for broken plate glass, and to exempt manufacturers of certain glass wares from penalties for not being licensed. An act to repeal the several bounties on the exportation of refined sugar from any part of the united kingdom, and to allow other bounties in lieu thereof, until the 5th day of July, 1820, and for reducing the size of the packages in which refined sugar may be exported. An act to provide for the maintaining of the royal canal from the river Liffey to the river Shannon in Ireland. An act to carry into execution a treaty made between his Majesty and the King of Spain, for the preventing traffic in slaves. An act for further continuing, until the 5th day of July, 1819, an act of the 54th year of his present Majesty, to continue the restrictions, contained in several acts of his present Majesty, on payments of cash by the Bank of England. An act to extend and render more effectual the present regulations for the relief of seafaring men and boys, subjects of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in foreign parts. An act to explain and amend 2 A an an act passed in the 56th year of the reign of his present Majesty, for amending the law of Ireland respecting the recovery of tenements from absconding, overholding, and defaulting tenants, and for the protection of the tenant from undue distress. An act to continue the laws now in force relating to yeomanry corps in Ireland. An act to amend an act made in the 56th year of his present Majesty, for regulating and securing the collection of the duties on paper in Ireland, and to allow a drawback of the duty on paper used in printing certain books at the press of Trinity College, Dublin. : An act for enabling the trustee of certain premises at Great Yarmouth in the county of Norfolk, held in trust for his Majesty, to execute a conveyance of the same to a purchaser thereof. An act for preventing the destruction of the breed of salmon, and fish of salmon kind, in the rivers of England. An act to alter the application of part of the sum of 50,000l. granted by an act passed in the 56th year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An act for improving the road from the city of Glasgow to the city ' of Carlisle.' An act for building and promoting the building of additional churches in populous parishes. An act for relief of persons entitled to entailed estates, to be purchased with trust monies, in that part of the united kingdom called Ireland. An act to establish fever hospitals, and to make other regula tions for the relief of the suffering poor, and for preventing the increase of infectious fevers in Ireland. An act to amend an act, passed in the last session of parliament, to encourage the establishment of banks for savings, in England. An act to explain three acts, passed in the 46th, 47th, and 51st years of his Majesty's reign, respectively, for the abolition of the Slave trade. An act to amend and continue, until the 10th day of November, 1820, an act passed in the 56th year of his present Majesty, to repeal the duties payable in Scotland upon wash and spirits, and distillers licences; to grant other duties in lieu thereof; and to establish further regulations for the distillation of spirits from corn, for home consumption, in Scotland. An act to amend certain acts passed in the 4th year of King Edward the 4th; 1st and 10th years of Queen Anne; 1st, 12th, and 13th years of King George the 1st; 13th, 22nd, and 29th years of King George the 2nd; and 13th and 57th years of King George the 3rd; prohibiting the payment of the wages of workmen in certain trades otherwise than in the lawful coin or money of this realm. of Kent, and to settle an annuity on the princess of Leiningen, in case she shall survive his said Royal Highness. An act to grant certain rates, duties, and taxes in Ireland, in respect of fire hearths, windows, male servants, horses, carriages, and dogs, in lieu of former rates, duties, and taxes thereon; and to provide for the payment thereof to the collectors of excise, and for the more effectual accounting for the same. An act to continue until the 5th day of July, 1819, two acts of the 54th year of his present Majesty, for repealing the duties of customs on madder imported into Great Britain, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof. An act to make perpetual an act of the 46th year of his present Majesty for granting an additional bounty on the exportation of the silk manufactures of Great Britain. An act to amend an act of the 55th year of his present Majesty, for granting duties of excise in Ireland upon certain licences, and for securing the payment of such duties, and the regulating of the issuing of such licences. An act to defray the charge of the pay, clothing, and contingent expenses of the disembodied militia in Great Britain; and for granting allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers, adjutants, quarter-masters, surgeons, surgeons- mates, and serjeant majors of militia, until the 25th day of March, 1819. An act for defraying, until the 25th day of June, 1819, the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia of Ireland; and for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the said militia during peace. An act to continue, until three months after the ceasing of any restriction imposed on the Bank of England from issuing cash in payment, the several acts for confirming and continuing the restrictions on payments in cash by the Bank of Ireland. An act for the better accommodation of his Majesty's packets within the harbour on the north side of the hill of Howth, and for the better regulation of the shipping therein. An act to continue, until the 1st day of August, 1819, two acts of his present Majesty, allowing the bringing of coals, culm, and cinders to London and Westminster. An act to revive and continue, until the 25th day of March, 1819, an act made in the 49th year of his present Majesty, to permit the importation of tobacco from any place whatever. An act to make further regu lations respecting the payment of navy prize-money, and to authorize the governors of Greenwich hospital to pay over certain shares of prize-money due to Russian seamen to his excellency the Russian Ambassador. An act for repealing the duties of excise on verjuice and vinegar, and granting other duties in lieu thereof; and for more effectually securing the duties of excise on vinegar or acetous acid. An act to empower any three or more of the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt to exercise all the powers and authorities 2 A 2 |