1768: 8 George 3 c.10: An Act to enable His Majesty to licence a Playhouse in the City of Bath.
[Preamble.]
WHEREAS a licensed Playhouse is much wanted in the City of Bath: May it therefore please Your Majesty that it may be enacted;’ and be it enacted, by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same,
[Clause in Act 10 Geo. II. repealed, with respect to the City of Bath.]
That so much of an Act of Parliament which passed in the Tenth Year of His late Majesty’s Reign, intituled, An Act to explain and amend so much of an Act made in the Twelfth Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for reducing the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, Sturdy Beggars, and Vagrants, in One Act of Parliament; and for the more effectual punishing such Rogues, Vagabonds, Sturdy Beggars, and Vagrants, and sending them whither they ought to be sent, as relates to common Players of Interludes; whereby all Persons are discharged to represent any Entertainment of the Stage whatever, in virtue of Letters Patent from His Majesty, or by Licence of the
Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty’s Household for the Time being, except within the Liberties of Westminster, or where His Majesty is residing for the Time being, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, with respect to the said City of Bath;
[The Crown impowered to grant Letters Patent for establishing a Theatre within the said City.]
and that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, His Heirs, and Successors, to grant Letters Patent for establishing a Theatre or Playhouse within the said City, which shall be intitled to all the Privileges, and subjected to all the Regulations, to which any Theatre or Playhouse in Great Britain is intitled and subjected.