Third session of the eighteenth parliament of Great Britain, sitting from 20 November 1798 to 12 July 1799.

‘Text’ links to the transcribed text on this site; ‘PDF’ to the PDF on this site.

Collections of Statutes:

Pickering, Statutes at Large, vol. 42: Google.
Ruffhead, Statutes at Large, vol. 18: Google.

Related contemporary materials:

Journal of the House of Commons, vol. 54: Google.
Journal of the House of Lords, vol. 42: Google.
Cobbett’s Parliamentary Debates, vol. 33: Google. Vol. 34: Google.
Annual Register, vol. 40, 1798: Google. Vol. 41, 1799: Google.

Other Resources:

Legislation.gov.uk: Public Acts 1799; Local Acts 1799.
Wikipedia category for Acts passed in 1798, 1799.

Public Acts.

1. An act for settling and securing a certain annuity on Horatio Nelson lord Nelson, and the two next persons to whom the title of baron Nelson of the Nile, and of Burnham Thorpe in the county of Norfolk, shall descend, in consideration of the eminent service performed by the said Horatio Nelson lord Nelson, to his Majesty and the publick.

2. An act 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-nine.

3. An act for continuing and granting to his Majesty a duty on pensions, offices, and personal estates, in England, Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed; and certain duties on sugar, malt, tobacco, and snuff; for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

4. Further to continue, until the expiration of six weeks after the commencement of the next session of parliament, an act, passed in the session of parliament holden in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, chapter seventy, videlicet, On the sixth day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, for the better prevention and punishment of attempts to seduce persons serving in his Majesty’s forces, by sea or land, from their duty and allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite them to mutiny or disobedience.

5. An act to continue, until the expiration of one month after the commencement of the next session of parliament, an act, passed in the last session of parliament, chapter sixty-six, videlicet, On the twenty-first day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, intituled, An act for empowering his Majesty for a time and to an extent to be limited, to accept the services of such parts of his military forces in this kingdom as may voluntarily offer themselves to be employed in Ireland.

6. An act to enlarge the time limited for the redemption of the land tax; and to explain and amend an act, made in the last session of parliament, intituled, An act for making perpetual, subject to redemption and purchase in the manner therein stated, the several sums of money now charged in Great Britain as a land tax, for one year, from the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight.

7. An act for raising the sum of three millions by way of annuities.

8. An act for extending the time allowed for taking out certificates for using or wearing armorial bearings or ensigns, until the fifteenth day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

9. An act to continue, until the first day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, an act, made in the last session of parliament, chapter seven, on the second day of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, intituled, An act to continue, until the expiration of six weeks after the commencement of the next session of parliament, two several acts, passed in the session of parliament holden in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, the one, chapter thirty-two, on the tenth day of March, and the other, chapter sixty-one, on the twenty-fifth day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, for suspending, for a limited time, the operation of certain acts, made in the fifteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of his present Majesty for refraining the negotiation of promissory notes and bills of exchange, under a limited sum, within that part of Great Britain called England; and also to amend the said act, and further to continue the same, so amended, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

10. An act to continue, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and amend an act, passed in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of his present Majesty, chapter two, videlicet, On the thirtieth day of November one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, intituled, An act to continue, until the expiration of thirty days after the commencement of the next session of parliament of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, chapter one hundred and thirty-seven, videlicet, On the twentieth of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven, intituled, ‘An act to continue an act, made in this present session of parliament, intituled, “An act to revive and continue for a limited time, and amend an act, passed in the present session of parliament, intituled, “An act to allow the banks, and certain banking companies, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, to issue notes for sums under a certain amount, for a limited time; and for indemnifying all persons who have issued notes for small sums of money in that part of the united kingdom” for a limited time.’

11. An act for allowing further time for the payment of instalments to become due on certain sums advanced by way of loan, to certain persons connected with and trading to the islands of Grenada and Saint Vincents.

12. An act to continue, until the expiration of six weeks after the commencement of the next session of parliament, an act, passed in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, chapter fifteen, videlicet, On the sixteenth day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five; and also an act, passed in the same year, chapter eighty, videlicet, On the twenty-second day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety-five; and also another act, passed in the thirty-sixth year of his present Majesty, chapter seventy-six, videlicet, On the fourteenth day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, relating to the admission of certain articles of merchandize in neutral ships, and the issuing of orders in council for that purpose; and to continue, for the same period, an act, passed in the session of parliament holden in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, chapter twenty-one, videlicet, On the twenty-eighth day of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, authorising his Majesty to make regulations respecting the trade and commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope.

13. An act to repeal the duties imposed by an act, made in the last session of parliament, for granting an aid and contribution for the prosecution of the war; and to make more effectual provision for the like purpose, by granting certain duties upon income, in lieu of the said duties.

14. An act for exempting, during the present war, certain persons, serving in volunteer corps, from being ballotted for the supplementary militia, under certain conditions; and for making out new lists of men liable to serve in the said militia.

15. An act to continue, until the twenty-first day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, an act, made in the last session of parliament, intituled, An act to empower his Majesty to secure and detain such persons as his Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his person and government. Text.

16. An act to revive and continue, until thirty days after the commencement of the next session of parliament, an act, passed in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, chapter seventy-six, videlicet, On the seventeenth day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, intituled, An act for establishing courts of judicature in the island of Newfoundland, and the islands adjacent.

17. An act 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 register or deliver in their qualifications within the time directed by law, and for extending the time limited for those purposes, until the twenty-fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine; to indemnify members and officers, in cities, corporations, and borough towns, whose admissions have been omitted to be stamped according to law, or having been damped, have been lost or mislaid, and for allowing them, until the twenty-fifth day of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, to provide admissions duly stamped; to permit such persons as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the first day of Michaelmas term one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine; to allow to such persons who have omitted to pay the duties on the indentures and contracts of clerks, apprentices, or servants, until the twenty-second day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, for payment of the same; to indemnify attornies who have omitted to enter their certificates according to law, and for allowing them, until the first day of Easter term, to enter the same with the proper officer; and 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 directed by law, and for extending the time limited for that purpose, until the first day of September one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

18. An act for raising a certain sum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

19. An act for the regulation of his Majesty’s marine forces while on shore, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred.

20. An act for the punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

21. An act to amend and render more effectual two acts, passed in the thirty-eighth year of his present Majesty’s reign and the present session of parliament, for the redemption and purchase of the land tax.

22. An act for extending the time for returning statements under an act, passed in the present session of parliament, intituled, An act to repeal the duties imposed by an act, made in the last session of parliament, for granting an aid and contribution for the prosecution of the war, and to make more effectual provision for the like purpose, by granting certain duties upon income, in lieu of the said duties; and to amend the said act.

23. An act to repeal certain parts of three acts, made in the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for raising a provisional force of cavalry; and for making further provision respecting such part of the provisional cavalry of this kingdom as is now actually called out and embodied.

24. An act to continue, until the twenty-fifth day of May next, an act, made in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of his present Majesty, chapter nine, videlicet, On the fourth day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, for continuing several acts, made in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh, and in the thirty-eighth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for suspending the operation of certain acts, made in the fifteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for restraining the negotiation of promissory notes and bills of exchange, under a limited sum, within that part of Great Britain called England.

25. An act to continue, until the twenty-fifth day of May next, an acct, passed in the thirty-ninth year of the reign of his present Majesty, chapter ten, videlicet, On the Fourth day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, for continuing several acts for allowing the banks, and certain banking companies, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, to issue notes for sums under a certain amount.

26. An act to continue, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred, an act, pasted in the session of parliament holden in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, chapter seventy-six, videlicet, On the sixth day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, for disallowing the bounty on the exportation to Ireland of sail cloth or canvas of the manufacture of Great Britain.

27. An act to revive and continue, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred, an act, passed in the session of parliament of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of his present Majesty, chapter seventy-two, videlicet, On the sixth of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, for prohibiting the importation of cambricks and French lawns into this kingdom, not being the manufacture of Ireland, except for the purpose of being warehoused for exportation.

28. An act to continue, until the twenty-fourth say of June one thousand eight hundred, an act, made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, chapter fifteen, videlicet, On the thirteenth day of November one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five, for granting a bounty on certain species of British and Irish linens exported; and taking off the duties on the importation of foreign raw linen yarns made of flax.

29. An act for enabling his Majesty to settle an annuity of twelve thousand pounds on his royal highness prince Edward, and a like annuity of twelve thousand pounds on his royal highness prince Ernest Augustus, during his Majesty pleasure.

30. An act to enable his Majesty to settle on her royal highness the princess Amelia, part of the annuity of thirty thousand pounds per annum, which his Majesty was enabled to settle on their royal highnesses his Majesty’s other daughters, out of the hereditary revenues, by virtue of an act passed in the eighteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty.

31. An act to continue, until the tenth day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and amend an act, passed in the last session of parliament, chapter ninety-two, videlicet, On the twenty-ninth day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight, for granting to his Majesty additional duties on distilleries in the several parts of the highlands of Scotland, for a limited time, and for regulating the duties on distilleries in the respective districts in Scotland; and for granting to his Majesty certain additional duties on spirits distilled for consumption, and a duty on unmalted grain used in distillation in Scotland.

32. An act to permit ships to sail from certain ports of the island of Newfoundland, and from the coast of Labrador, without convoy.

33. An act for raising a further sum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

34. An act for repealing two acts, passed in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, which limit the time for killing partridges in England and Scotland; and for amending so much of an act, passed in the second year of the reign of his present Majesty, as relates to such limitation within that part of Great Britain called England, by making other provisions for that purpose.

35. An act for exempting, during the present war, persons serving in volunteer corps and associations, from being ballotted for the militia, under certain conditions.

36. An act for increasing the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers.

37. An act for remedying certain defects in the law respecting offences committed upon the high seas. Text.

38. An act to continue, until the twenty-fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and four, and amend an act, made in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for allowing the importation of rape feed, and other feeds used for extracting oil, whenever the prices of middling British rape feed shall be above a certain limit; and to continue several laws relating to the allowing the importation of seal skins cured with foreign salt, free of duty, until the twenty-fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and four; to the more effectual encouragement of the manufactures of flax and cotton in Great Britain, until the twenty-fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and three; and so much of an act, made in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for better securing the duties on glass, as was to continue in force for a limited time, until the fifth day of June one thousand eight hundred.

39. An act to amend an act, made in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for granting to his Majesty certain stamp duties on indentures of clerkships to solicitors and attornies, in any of the courts in England, therein-mentioned.

40. An act to amend so much of three acts, made in the last and present sections of parliament, for making perpetual, subject to redemption and purchase, the several sums of money charged as a land tax, as relates to that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

41. An act for raising an additional sum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

42. An act to enable the commercial commissioners appointed to carry into execution certain acts for granting duties upon income, to extend the time limited by the said acts for receiving returns of income; and for explaining and amending the said acts.

43. An act for enlarging the time limited by certain acts passed for the redemption of the land tax, for receiving contracts and making transfers of stock thereon, and for explaining and amending the said acts.

44. An act for further continuing, until the first day of March one thousand eight hundred, an act, made in the last session of parliament, intituled, An act to empower his Majesty to secure and detain such persons as his Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his person and government.

45. An act for making perpetual so much of an act made in the nineteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, chapter seventy-four, videlicet, On the twenty-sixth day of November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, intituled, An act to explain and amend the laws relating to transportation, imprisonment, and other punishment of certain offenders, as relates to the punishment of burning in the hand of certain persons convicted of felony within the benefit of clergy. Text.

46. An act for making perpetual so much of an act made in the nineteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, chapter seventy-four, videlicet, On the twenty-sixth day of November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, intituled, An act to explain and amend the laws relating to the transportation, imprisonment, and other punishment of certain offenders, as relates to the lodgings of judges at county assizes.

47. An act to continue, until the fifth day of July next, an act, made in the present session of parliament, chapter twenty-four, videlicet, On the twenty-first day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, for continuing several acts, made in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh and in the thirty-eighth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for suspending the operation of certain acts, made in the fifteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for restraining the negotiation of promissory notes and bills of exchange, under a limited sum, within that part of Great Britain called England.

48. An act to continue, until the fifth day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, an act, passed in the present session of parliament, for continuing several acts for allowing the banks, and certain banking companies, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, to issue notes for sums under a certain amount.

49. An act to extend the bail to be given in cases of criminal information, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

50. An act for making perpetual an act, made in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for the further relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons; and to oblige debtors, who shall continue in execution in prison beyond a certain time, and for sums not exceeding what are mentioned in the act, to make discovery, and deliver, upon oath, their estates for their creditors benefit.

51. An act for continuing, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and two, several laws relating to the transportation of felons and other offenders, and to the authorising the removal of offenders to temporary places of confinement in England and Scotland respectively. Text.

52. An act for continuing, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and two, so much of an act, made in the nineteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, chapter seventy-four, videlicet, On the twenty-sixth day of November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, intituled, An act to explain and amend the laws relating to the transportation, imprisonment, and other punishment of certain offenders, as relates to penitentiary houses. Text.

53. An act to continue, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and four, so much of an act, made in the twenty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

54. An act to indemnify all persons who may have incurred penalties or forfeitures under an act, passed in the second year of the reign of the King James the First, intituled, An act concerning tanners, curriers, shoemakers, and other artificers occupying the cutting of leather; and to repeal parts of the said act, relating to the buying of hides.

55. An act for encouraging the improvement of lands subject to the servitude of thirlage, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

56. An act to explain and amend the laws relative to colliers in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

57. An act for indemnifying governors, lieutenant governors, and persons acting as such in the West India islands, who have permitted the importation and exportation of goods and commodities in foreign bottoms.

58. An act to enable his Majesty to grant a certain annuity to sir James Marriott knight, late judge of the high court of admiralty, in consideration of his diligent and faithful services in the execution of that office.

59. An act for permitting certain goods, imported from the East Indies, to be warehoused; and for repealing the duties now payable thereon and granting other duties in lieu thereof.

60. An act for raising the sum of fifteen millions five hundred thousand pounds by way of annuities.

61. An act to repeal the duty granted by an act of the last session of parliament on raw linen yarn, the produce of the territories of the king of Prussia, and imported directly from thence into this kingdom; and for charging another duty in lieu thereof.

62. An act to amend an act made in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, and two acts made in the last session of parliament, for raising a militia force in that part of the kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland.

63. An act for granting to his Majesty certain additional duties on sugar imported and exported, and on coffee exported; and for reducing the drawbacks now allowed on the exportation of sugar.

64. An act for granting to his Majesty the sum of two 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 commissioners for the reduction of the national debt.

65. An act for allowing, until the twenty-fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and five, a further bounty upon pilchards exported; and for amending an act made in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for transferring the management of the salt duties to the commissioners of excise.

66. An act for placing the salaries of the sheriff deputes and substitutes of Scotland, upon the Scots civil list establishment.

67. An act to enable such person as his Majesty shall please to appoint to the vacant office of a baron of the exchequer, to take upon himself the degree of a serjeant at law.

68. An act for enabling his Majesty to raise the sum of three millions for the uses and purposes therein-mentioned.

69. An act for raising the sum of three millions five hundred thousand pounds by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

70. An act for raising the sum of three millions, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

71. An act to enable the lords commissioners of his Majesty’s treasury to issue exchequer bills to a limited amount, on the credit of such monies as shall arise by virtue of an act of this session, for granting certain duties on income.

72. An act to amend an act made in the present session of parliament, intituled, An act to repeal the duties imposed by an act made in the last session of parliament, for granting an aid and contribution for the prosecution of the war; and to make more effectual provision for the like purpose, by granting certain duties upon income, in lieu of the said duties, so far as relates to the assessments made upon trustees, agents, receivers, and guardians.

73. An act for exempting certain specifick legacies which shall be given to bodies corporate, or other publick bodies, from the payment of duty; and also the legacy of books and other articles given by the will of the late reverend Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode to the trustees of the British museum.

74. An act for further continuing until the first day of February one thousand eight hundred and three, an act, made in the twenty-seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act to enable the lord high treasurer, or commissioners of the treasury for the time being, to let to farm the duties granted by an act, made in the twenty-fifth year of his present Majesty’s reign, on horses let to hire for travelling post, and by time, to such persons as should be willing to contract for the same.

75. An act for reviving and making perpetual an act, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act to prohibit the importation of light silver coin of this realm from foreign countries into Great Britain or Ireland; and to restrain the tender thereof beyond a certain sum.

76. An act for the more secure conveyance of ship letters, and for granting to his Majesty certain rates of portage thereon. Text.

77. An act for repealing the duties on salt made in Scotland, and on salt imported from Scotland into England and Wales, and granting other duties in lieu thereof.

78. An act to continue, until the tenth day of November one thousand eight hundred, and amend an act, passed in the present session of parliament, for continuing an act of the last session of parliament, for granting to ins Majesty additional duties on distilleries, in the several parts of the highlands of Scotland, for a limited time; and for regulating the duties on distilleries in the respective districts in Scotland; and for granting to his Majesty certain additional duties on spirits distilled for consumption, and a duty on unmalted grain used in distillation in Scotland.

79. An act for the more effectual suppression of societies established for seditious and treasonable purposes; and for better preventing treasonable and seditious practices.

80. An act for better regulating the manner of carrying slaves, in British vessels, from the coast of Africa. Text.

81. An act to prevent unlawful combinations of workmen.

82. An act to explain and amend an act, passed in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for amending, and reducing into one act of parliament, two several acts, passed in the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for the better ordering the militia of the city of London, and for further regulating the trained bands or militia of the said city.

83. An act for transferring to the commissioners for auditing the publick accounts, the duties now performed in the offices of the auditors of the land revenue; and for directing the mode of attesting the accounts of the paymaster general of his Majesty’s forces.

84. An act to enable the lords commissioners of the treasury to contract with the most noble Charles duke of Richmond, for the absolute purchase of the property of the said duke, and all others interested, in a certain duty of twelve-pence per chaldron on coals shipped in the river Tyne, to be consumed in England, and to grant a compensation for the same, by way of annuity, payable out of the consolidated fund.

85. An act to protect masters against embezzlements by their clerks or servants.

86. An act for ascertaining the rate of duty to be paid for retail spirit licences; and for authorising the justices of the peace for any county to grant licences to sell ale, beer, or other liquors, by retail, in cities and places where a sufficient number of magistrates cannot be found qualified to grant such licences.

87. An act for enabling his Majesty to prohibit the exportation, and permit the importation, of corn, and for allowing the importation of other articles of provision, without payment of duty, to continue in force until six weeks from the commencement of the next session of parliament.

88. An act for erecting the county of Edinburgh into a separate districts, for the purpose of regulating the importation and exportation of corn.

89. An act for regulating the manner in which the united company of merchants of England trading to the East Indies, shall hire and take up ships for their regular service.

90. An act to amend two acts, passed in the twenty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of the reign of his present Majesty, so far as the same relate to the militia of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey; and for applying certain monies remaining in the hands of the clerks to the deputy lieutenants of the county of Middlesex, and other persons, towards the completing of the said militia.

91. An act for granting to his Majesty a certain sum of money, to be raised by lottery.

92. An act for altering the period of making up the annual account of the duties on stamped vellum, parchment, and paper.

93. An act to repeal so much of an act, passed in the seventh year of the reign of queen Anne, and also so much of an act, passed in the seventeenth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, as puts an end to the forfeiture of inheritances upon attainder of treason, after the death of the pretender and his sons.

94. An act to ascertain the salary of the master and worker of his Majesty’s mint.

95. An act to permit goods the produce of any foreign colony in America, imported directly from thence in any ship or vessel belonging to the subjects of any country or place in amity with his Majesty, to be entered and landed without payment of the duty granted by an act of the last session of parliament, for the better protection of the trade of this kingdom.

96. An act to enable Matthew Boulton, engineer, to export the machinery necessary for erecting a mint in the dominions of his imperial Majesty, the emperor of all the Russias.

97. An act for defraying the charge of the pay and cloathing of the militia in that part of Great Britain called England, for one year, from the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine.

98. An act to allow the importation of Spanish wool, in ships belonging to countries in amity with his Majesty.

99. An act to encourage the trade into the Levant Seas, by providing a more convenient mode of performing quarantine, and for reducing the duty granted by an act of the last session, on goods the manufacture of Great Britain, exported to any place within the streights of Gibraltar.

100. An act to revive and continue, until the end of the next session of parliament, an act, made in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, to continue and amend an act, made in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for the more effectual encouragement of the British fisheries; and to amend an act, made in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for extending the fisheries, and improving the sea coast of this kingdom.

101. An act to continue several laws relating to the further support and encouragement of the fisheries carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis’s Streights, until the twenty-fifth day of December one thousand eight hundred, and to the discontinuing the duties payable on the importation of tallow, hog’s lard, and grease until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and six.

102. An act to revive and continue, until the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and one, the bounties granted by an act, made in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for encouraging the fisheries carried on at Newfoundland, and parts adjacent, from Great Britain and Ireland, and the British dominions in Europe.

103. An act for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the militia in time of peace.

104. An act to amend an act, made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled, An act to enable his Majesty to grant commissions to a certain number of foreign protestants, who have served abroad as officers or engineers, to act and rank as officers or engineers in America only, under certain restrictions and qualifications.

105. An act to continue and amend so much of an act, made in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, as permits sir William Bishop, George Bishop, and Argles Bishop, to carry on the manufacture of Maidstone geneva.

106. An act for the reduction of the militia forces, at the time and in the manner therein limited for enabling his Majesty more effectually to increase his regular forces, for the vigorous prosecution of the war; and for amending the laws relating to the militia.

107. An act for granting to his Majesty certain stamp duties on bills of exchange and promissory notes for small sums of money.

108. An act to amend and render more effectual several acts for the redemption and purchase of the land tax.

109. An act for better recruiting the forces of the East India company.

110. An act for the augmentation of the salaries of the judges of the courts in Westminster Hall, and also of the lords of session, lords of of justiciary, and barons of exchequer, in Scotland; and for enabling his Majesty to grant annuities to persons in certain offices in the said courts of Westminster Hall, on their resignation of their respective offices.

111. An act to permit, until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and two, the importation of certain naval stores from Hamburgh, and other ports of Germany.

112. An act to enable his Majesty, by order in council, to permit, until six weeks after the commencement of the next session of parliament, such goods as shall be specified in such order to be imported into this kingdom, in neutral ships.

113. An act to enable such persons as his Majesty may be pleased to appoint to the office of chief justice, or of one of the justices of either bench, or of chief baron, or one of the barons of the exchequer, to take upon themselves the degree of a serjeant at law in vacation.

114. An act for granting to his Majesty a certain sum of money out of the consolidated fund, for applying certain sums of money therein mentioned, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

Local Acts.

1. An act to enable Thomas Coutts Esquire, Banker, to make a Communication between his Buildings on the opposite Sides of William-Street, in the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, within the City and Liberty of Westminster, by a covered Passage to be built over the said Street. Page 218.

2. An act to amend and render more effectual an act passed in the twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for rebuilding the Pier of Margate in the Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent; and for other Purposes mentioned in the said Act.

3. An act for making and maintaining the Road from or near Whiteburn in the County of Berwick, to the Town of Kelso in the County of Roxburgh, to continue for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament.

4. An act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Bridget, otherwise Saint Bride, Fleet-Street, in the City of London.

5. An act for explaining, amending, and rendering more effectual, several Acts, passed in the ninth, fifteenth, twenty-sixth, and thirty-fourth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from the Coventry Canal Navigation to the City of Oxford.

6. An act to enable the Lords of the Manor of Brixham, in the County of Devon, to repair and enlarge, or rebuild, the Pier or Quay at Brixham Quay, within the said Manor, to improve the Harbour there, to regulate the Moorings of Vessels therein, and to establish a Marker there.

7. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Arable Lands, Intermixed Pastures, Open Fields, Half Year Lands, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the Parish of Upton, in the County of Norfolk, and such Part of the Open Fields, called Upton Field and Fishley Crofts as lie in the Parish of Fishley, in the said County, and for draining the same.

8. An act for rendering more effectual an act passed in the twelfth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An act for making and keeping in Repair a Road or Passage for Horses, on the Banks of the River Severn, between Bewdley Bridge and a Place called The Meadow Wharf, at Coalbrook Dale, for baling and drawing Vessels along the said River; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

9. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of two several Acts, the one made and passed in the twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and the other in the eleventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing the Road from Knaresbrough, in the County of York, by Long Flatt Lane, Gouldsbrough Fields, Flaxby, Allerton Mauleverer, and Scate Moor, to Greenhammerton, in the same County, and for making the same a High Carriage Road.

10. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Terms and altering and enlarging the Powers, of three several Acts, passed in the fourteenth and twenty-sixth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and in the twenty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing the Roads from Doncaster, through Ferrybridge, to the South Side of Tadcaster Cross, and also from Ferrybridge to Wetherby, and from thence to Boroughbridge, in the County of York, so far as the same relate to the Road between Ferrybridge and Wetherby, and from thence to Boroughbridge.

11. An act to continue for the Term of twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, and for enlarging the Powers of an Act, made in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Road from Evesham Bridge, in the Borough of Evesham, in the County of Worcester, to The Globe Inn in Alcester, in the County of Warwick.

12. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers of two Acts made in the thirty-second Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and in the twentieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening certain Roads leading to and from the Towns of Nottingham and Derby, so far as relates to the Road leading from Chappel Bar, near the West End of the Town of Nottingham, to Saint Mary’s Bridge in the Town of Derby, and from the Guide Post in the Parish of Lenton to Sawley Ferry.

13. An act to continue, for the Term of twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and for altering and enlarging the Powers, of an Act, made in the nineteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing the Road leading from Kilburn Bridge, in the County of Middlesex, to Sparrow’s Herne, in the County of Hertford.

14. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and increasing, altering, and enlarging the Powers, of two several Acts, passed in the twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and in the fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Road from the West End of the Town of Burton upon Trent, in the County of Stafford, through the said Town, to the South End of the Town of Derby in the County of Derby.

15. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers of two Acts, passed in the twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and the eighteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for amending; widening, and keeping in Repair, several Roads leading from the Market House in the Town of Much Wenlock and from Gleeton Hill to Cressage, in the County of Salop.

16. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of an act passed in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Road from The Birches Brook to Buildwas Bridge, and from thence to join the Watling Street Turnpike Road at Tern Bridge in the County of Salop, so far as relates to the last mentioned Road.

17. An act to continue, for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and to amend the Powers, of an act passed in the twentieth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Roads from Gosport, through Fareham and Wickham, to Bishop’s Waltham, and from Wickham aforesaid to Chawton Pond, in the Parish of Chawton, all in the County of Southampton.

18. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term and Powers of two Acts, passed in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and the eighteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Roads from the East End of the Town of Hertford, in the County of Hertford, through Watton to Broadwater, and from the Town of Ware, through Watton, to the North End of the Town of Walkern, in the said County.

19. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of several Acts, passed in the eleventh Year of the Reign of King George the First, the sixth and twenty-sixth Years of His late Majesty, and in the twelfth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing the Roads from the Parish of Enfield, in the County of Middlesex, to the Town of Hertford, and from the End of the Town of Hertford to Amwell End, near Ware, in the County of Hertford, and other Roads in the said Acts mentioned.

20. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of two Acts, passed in the second and twenty-second Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Road from the Turnpike Road at Weyhill, in the County of Southampton, to the Turnpike Road at Lydeway, in the County of Wilts.

21. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of three several Acts, passed in the fourteenth and twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and in the twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, so far as the same relate to the Road from Selby to Leeds, in the West Riding of the County of York.

22. An act for repairing several Roads in the Counties of Dumfries and Roxburgh, to continue in Force for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament.

23. An act to continue for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term and Powers of two Acts, passed in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, and the eighteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for building a Bridge over the River Lea, at or near a Place called Jeremy’s Ferry, and for making, repairing, and widening, Roads from thence into the Great Roads at Snaresbrooke in the County of Essex, and at Clapton in the County of Middlesex.

24. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of two Acts, passed in the third and twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty King George the Third, for repairing, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road from Kirkby Kendall, in the County of Westmoreland, to Kirkby Ireleth, in the County of Lancaster.

25. An act for more effectually repairing and improving the Roads from Manchester, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, through Oldham to Austerlands, in the Parish of Saddleworth, in the County of York, and from Oldham to Ashton-under-Lyne, and from Oldham to the Village of Royton, in the said County Palatine of Lancaster.

26. An act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from Foston Bridge, in the County of Lincoln, to Little Drayton, in the County of Nottingham.

27. An act for amending and rendering more effectual an act passed in the thirty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from Loch Gilp to Loch Crinan in the Shire of Argyll.

28. An act for building a Bridge over the River Severn, from or near Cressage, in the County of Salop, to the opposite Shore; and for making proper Roads or Avenues to and from the same.

29. An act to continue for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and alter and enlarge the Rowers, of two Acts made in the twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, and in the twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Roads from Coleham Bridge, in Shrewsbury, to the Market Place in Church Stretton, and to the Top of Lythwood Hill, and from Pulley Common to the Maypole in Condover; and from Coleham Bridge to Longdon, and from the Fifth Milestone near Longdon, to the Turnpike Gate at Castle Pulverbatch, in the County of Salop.

30. An act to continue for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and enlarge the Powers, of two Acts, passed in the twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing the Roads from the North End of Brown’s-Lane, in Great Stoughton in the County of Huntingdon, to the Way Post near Wellingborough Bridge in the County of Northampton, and from the Pound in Kimbolton to the Way Post near Brington Bridge, in the said County of Huntingdon.

31. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of several Acts, for repairing the Road from the North End of Mailing Street, near the Town of Lewes, and certain other Roads in the County of Sussex.

32. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of an act passed in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Road from Newark-upon-Trent, in the County of Nottingham, to join the Turnpike Road from Nottingham to Grantham, in the County of Lincoln, near the Guide Post on the Foss Road near Bingham, in the said County of Nottingham.

33. An act to continue for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and to alter, enlarge, and repeal some of the Provisions of two Acts, passed in the twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of King George the Second, and in the fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, so far as the said Acts relate to the repairing of the Roads from an Intrenchment on Askerwell Hill, through Bridport to Penn Inn, from Bridport to Beaminster, from the North End of the South Street of Bridport to Bridport Harbour, from. the North Turnpike Gate at Beaminster to Beaminster Wood, otherwise Wood Common, and to Lettham’s Water, all in the County of Dorset.

34. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of two Acts, passed in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and the eighteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, so far as the said Acts relate to the repairing and widening the Road from the North End of Dapden Wharf, in the Parish of Stoke, next Guldeford, through Guldeford, to Andrew’s Cross, and to Alfold Bars, in the County of Surrey, and from thence to New Bridge, in the County of Sussex.

35. An act to continue for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and to alter and enlarge the Powers, of an act passed in the nineteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing and widening the Roads from Gander-Lane in the County of Derby, to Sheffield in the County of York, and from Mosbrough-Green to Clown, both in the said County of Derby.

36. An act for better supplying the Town and Port of Liverpool with Water, from certain Springs in the Township of Bootle, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

37. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of two several Acts, the one passed in the twenty-fifth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and the other in the fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for amending and keeping in Repair the Road leading from the North East Corner of Nuffield Common, by the Parish Church of Nuffield, otherwise Tuffield, in the County of Oxford, through Wallingford to Wantage, and from thence to Farringdon, in the County of Berks.

38. An act for altering, enlarging, and repealing some of the Provisions in an act passed in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing several Roads leading from the Town of Taunton, and other Roads adjoining thereto, in the County of Somerset; and also for extending the Provisions of the said Act to a Road from Tucker’s Gate, in the Parish of Lyng, to Piper’s Inn, in the Parish of Ashcott, in the said County of Somerset.

39. An act for continuing for thirty-eight Years, and rendering more effectual several Acts for charging a Duty of two Pennies Scots (or one sixth Part of a Penny Sterling) on every Pint of Ale and Beer vended or sold within the Towns of Port Glasgow and Newark, and Privileges thereof.

40. An act for continuing for thirty-eight Years, and rendering more effectual an act passed in the twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, for continuing the Duty of two Pennies Scots, or one sixth Part of a Penny Sterling, on every Pint of Ale and Beer vended or sold within the City of Glasgow, and Village of Gorbals, and Liberties and Privileges thereof.

41. An act for better regulating and employing the Poor, and for more effectually watching the Squares, Streets, Lanes, and other Places, within that Part of the Parish of Saint Andrew Holborn which lies above the Bars, in the County of Middlesex, and the Parish of Saint George the Martyr, in the said County.

42. An act for the better and more effectual Relief and Employment of the Poor in the Hundred of Samford, in the County of Suffolk.

43. An act for more effectually repairing and amending the Road leading from Long Horseley Bar or Gate, on the Post Road near the Town of Morpeth, by or through Long Horseley, Weldon Bridge, and Whittingham, to the River Breamish, and from thence to Piercy’s Cross, in the County of Northumberland, to continue in Force for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament.

44. An act to amend two Acts made in the twenty-eighth and thirty-eighth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for enlarging and improving the Harbour of Leith.

45. An act for explaining and amending two Acts, passed in the thirty-first and thirty-second Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing the Roads from Livingstone, by the Kirk of Shotts, to the City of Glasgow, and other Roads therein mentioned.

46. An act for making and repairing the Road from Dunkeld to Coupar of Angus, by the Bridge of Isla, and the Road leading out of the Road between Dunkeld and Perth to the Boat at Caputh, by or through the Village of Stanley in the County of Perth, to continue in Force for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament.

47. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and enlarging and altering the Powers, of two Acts, the one passed in the thirtieth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and the other in the second Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road leading from Burleigh Bridge, in the Town of Loughborough, to Ashby-de-la-Zouch, in the County of Leicester, and for repairing and widening the Road, branching out of the said Road at Coleorton Church, over Coleorton Moor, and through Worthington and Sutton Bonington, to Rempston, in the Counties of Leicester and Nottingham.

48. An act for more effectually amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road from the Turnpike Road at the Bottom of Shaw Hill, in the Parish of Melksham, through Googe’s Lane, Corsham, Biddestone, and West Yatton, to the Turnpike Road at Upper Coombe, in the Parish of Castle Coombe, in the County of Wilts.

49. An act for more effectually repairing, widening, altering, and improving the Road at or near Beckhampton, and from the North Side of Swindon to the Carpenter’s Arms in Blunsden, and several other Roads therein mentioned, in the County of Wilts.

50. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and amending the Powers, of three several Acts, passed in the twenty-fifth, twenty-seventh, and thirty-third Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, for repairing and widening the Road leading from Market Harborough, in the County of Leicester, to the Pound in the Parish of Brampton, in the County of Huntingdon.

51. An act for more effectually amending, widening, improving, and keeping in Repair, the Road from Gateshead, in the County of Durham, to the Church Lane, near, Ryton Lane Head, and from the Bar Moor to the Hexham Turnpike Road, near Dilston Bar, in the County of Northumberland, and also several other Roads therein described, lying within the said Counties.

52. An act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from Skipton in the County of York, to Clitheroe in the County of Lancaster.

53. An act for building a Bridge over the River Tweed, at or near the Town of Kelso, in the County of Roxburgh.

54. An act for vesting Part of the Settled Estates of the Right Honourable John Lord Rolle in Trustees, to sell or exchange the same, and purchase, or take in Exchange, other Estates to be settled in lieu thereof to the same Uses.

55. An act for vesting certain Estates in Tokenhouse Yard, in the City of London, in the Trustees of the other Settled Estates of the Marquis of Lansdown and the Right Honourable John Henry Petty, commonly called Earl of Wycombe, in Trust to be sold, and for laying out the Monies arising from the Sale in the Manner therein directed; and for empowering the said Trustees of the said Settled Estates to apply the Monies arising from the Sale of any Part thereof in the Manner therein directed; and for discharging the said Settled Estates from a Rent Charge of five hundred Pounds given to James Petty Esquire, and the Heirs Male of his Body, by the Will of Henry formerly Earl of Shelburne, deceased.

56. An act for vesting Part of the Settled Estates of Simon Payne Esquire, and Hester his Wife, in the County of Gloucester, in Trustees, to be exchanged for Part of their unsettled Estates, in the County of Somerset.

57. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, a certain Tract or Parcel of Common, Waste, and Marsh Grounds, called Thornton Marsh, within the several Parishes of Poulton and Bispham, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

58. An act for regulating the Rates of Porterage to be taken by Innkeepers and other Persons within the Cities of London and Westminster, the Borough of Southwark and Places adjacent.

59. An act to enlarge the Term, and alter and enlarge the Powers, of several Acts, relating to the Harbour of Liverpool; and for making two additional Wet Docks and Piers in or near the Port of Liverpool; and for rendering more safe and commodious the said Port and Docks.

60. An act for authorizing the Company of Proprietors of the Stratford upon Avon Canal Navigation to vary the Course of certain Parts of the said Canal, directed to be made by an act passed in the thirty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and also to make a Branch out of the said Canal, and also to vary the Course of a navigable Cut directed to be made from the said Stratford upon Avon Canal, in the Parish of Lapworth, into the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, in the Manor of Kingswood, in the County of Warwick, by another Act passed in the thirty-fifth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, and for amending the said Acts.

61. An act for paving the Footways, and for cleaning, lighting, and regulating, the Streets, Lanes, and other Publick Passages and Places, within the Town of Trowbridge, in the County of Wilts; and for removing and preventing Nuisances, Annoyances, and Obstructions, therein.

62. An act for continuing, for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering and enlarging the Powers, of an act passed in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty King George the Third, intituled, An act for enlarging the Term and Powers of three Acts, passed in the first, ninth, and twenty-second Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, for repairing and enlarging the Road leading from the House called The Sign of the Bells, in the Parish of Saint Margaret, in Rochester, to Maidstone, and other Roads therein mentioned, in the County of Kent.

63. An act for more effectually repairing and improving the Road from The Green Man, in the Chapelry of Seend, in the County of Wilts, through Trowbridge, to Beckington, in the County of Somerset, and several other Roads communicating with, or lying near to, the said Road; and for making and maintaining certain Pieces of New Road in Trowbridge aforesaid.

64. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and enlarging the Powers of an act passed in the thirty-third Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An act for repairing, widening, altering, diverting, and turning the Road from Ardwick Green, near Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, to the Bridge at the Corn Mills at Wilmslow, in the County of Chester.

65. An act to continue for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and alter and enlarge the Powers of an act passed in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An act for more effectually amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, several Roads therein mentioned, leading from a Gate, in the Town and County of Poole, called Poole Gate; and for repealing two Acts of Parliament, of the twenty-ninth and thirtieth Years of His late Majesty, relating to the said Roads; and also for applying a certain Sum of Money therein mentioned, towards paving and repairing a certain Street or Way within the said Town and County.

66. An act to empower the Right Honourable Henry Earl Fauconberg to charge his Settled Estates in the Counties of York and Chester with the Sum of fifteen thousand Pounds, in lieu of the Right of him the said Henry Earl Fauconberg, and the other Tenants for Life of the said Estates, to cut down Timber growing thereon; and to grant Building Leases of such Parts of the said Settled Estates as are near, or adjoining to, the Town of Macclesfield, in the said County of Chester; and for vesting the Manor and other Hereditaments of and in Sutton in the Forest, in the said County of York, other Part of the said Settled Estates, in Trustees, in Trust to sell the same, and, out of the Money arising from the Sale thereof, to discharge the Incumbrances on the said Settled Estates.

67. An act for more easily effectuating the Sale of Part of the Freehold Estates late of James Duberly Esquire, deceased, and for applying the clear Monies to arise therefrom upon the Trusts of the Marriage Settlements of his five Daughters.

68. An act for vesting the Fee Simple of several Estates in the County of Chester, (devised by the Will of Philip Egerton Esquire, deceased, to a Trustee for a Term of Years, for the Purpose of discharging his Debts, with Remainder to the Uses therein mentioned,) in Trustees, to be sold for discharging the said Debts, and to lay out the Surplus (if any) of the Monies arising by such Sale in the Purchase of Lands to be settled to the same Uses.

69. An act for rendering more commodious, and for better regulating the Port of London.

70. An act for enabling the Grimsby Haven Company to finish and complete the Navigation of the said Haven, and for amending an act passed in the thirty-sixth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for widening, deepening, enlarging, altering, and improving, the Haven of the Town and Port of Great Grimsby, in the County of Lincoln.

71. An act for empowering the Company of Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation to repay, into the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, the Sum advanced to them for the Purpose of completing the said Navigation; for repealing so much of an Act, of the twenty-fourth Year of His present Majesty, as relates to the said Company; add for enabling the Barons of the said Court of Exchequer to advance Part of the Sum so to be received to the Company of Proprietors of the Crinan Canal, on certain Conditions.

72. An act for settling the Right of Patronage or Presentation of or to the new Chapel of Cradley, in that Part of the Parish of Halesowen which lies in the County and Diocese of Worcester, and for other Purposes.

73. An act for making and maintaining a Tunnel, or Road, under the River Thames, from or near to the Town of Gravesend, in the County of Kent, to or near to Tilbury Fort, in the County of Essex.

74. An act for making a new Street from the Haymarket into Charles Street, St. James’s Square, within the City and Liberty of Westminster.

75. An act for amending, widening, altering, and keeping in Repair, the Road leading from Cheadle, through Alveton, to the Uttoxeter and Ashborne Turnpike Road, at or near Quickshill Bank; and also the Road leading from the Stone and Uttoxeter Turnpike Road, at Bear’s Brook, through Hollington, to the said Uttoxeter and Ashborne Turnpike Road, at or near the Churnet Bridge at Rocester, in the County of Stafford, to continue in Force for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament.

76. An act to continue, for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term and Powers of an act passed in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, intituled, An act for amending, widening, and keeping in Repair, the Road leading from the Turnpike Road, in the Parish of Althall, in the County of Oxford, to the Turnpike Road at or near Buckland, in the County of Berks.

77. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and enlarging the Powers, of three Acts, passed in the fourth and twenty-fourth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Second, and in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for repairing the Roads leading from the most Southern Part of Butt Lane, in the Parish of Lawton, in the County Palatine of Chester, to Lawton, and from thence to Henshall’s Smithy, upon Cranage Green, in the said County.

78. An act for continuing for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the Term, and altering the Powers, of an Act, made in the seventeenth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, for repairing the Road from the Town of Skipton to the Turnpike Road from Leeds to Ripon, near Okbeck, in the Township of Bilton with Harrogate, and from thence to the Road leading from Knaresborough to Wetherby, in the West Riding of the County of York.

79. An act for enabling William Stephen Poyntz Esquire, and the Honourable Elizabeth Mary his Wife, to charge the Estates late of the Right Honourable George Samuel Lord Viscount Montague deceased, in the County of Sussex, with a competent Sum of Money for improving the same, and for other Purposes.

80. An act for confirming and rendering effectual a Partition and Division between the late Honourable Penn Asheton Curzon deceased, and the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Ribblesdale, (then Thomas Lister Esquire,) of the Rectory of Whalley, and of the Chapels, Glebe Lands, Messuages, Tenements, Tythes, Obventions, Profits, and Hereditaments thereto belonging, now held under a Lease from the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and for that Purpose to enable the said Lord Archbishop and his Successors, at all Times hereafter, to grant the said Rectory and Premises by two several Leases, according to the said Partition and Division.

81. An act for vesting a Piece of Ground and Hereditaments in the Parish of Saint Mary Woolnoth, in the City of London, belonging to the Parish of Saint Mary le Bow, in Abraham Robarts, William Curtis, Ellis Were, and Charles Hornyold, of the said City of London, Bankers and Copartners, in Fee Simple, upon Payment of the Sum of one thousand three hundred and fifty Pounds, upon Trust, to be applied in the Manner therein mentioned, for the Support of a Lecturer, and for better regulating the Appointment of the said Lecturer.

82. An act to amend an Act, made in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for erecting a Building for holding the Courts, and exercising the Jurisdiction, of the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter, in Westminster, and for holding the Quarter Sessions of the Peace, and transacting the other Publick Business of the said City and Liberty.

83. An act for enabling His Majesty to incorporate, by Charter, a Company to be called The Globe Insurance Company, for Insurance on Lives, and against Loss or Damage by Fire, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

Private Acts.

1. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Whole Year Lands, Common Fields, Half Year or Shack Lands, Commons, and Waste Lands, within the Parish of Shropham, in the County of Norfolk.

2. An act to enable Thomas Jull of Ash, next Sandwich, in the County of Kent, Esquire, and his Issue, to assume and take the Surname of Godfrey only, and to bear the Arms and Crests of the Godfreys, pursuant to the Directions contained in a Codicil to the Will of Thomas Godfrey, late of London, Merchant, deceased.

3. An act for naturalizing Charles Frederick Hennings.

4. An act for naturalizing John Roger Teschemacher.

5. An act for naturalizing Hermenegild Augustus Maria Castellain.

6. An act for naturalizing John Alexander Martin.

7. An act for naturalizing John Everard Heyman.

8. An act for naturalizing Anthony Schick.

9. An act for naturalizing John Lawrence Gries.

10. An act for naturalizing Adolphus Kent.

11. An act for naturalizing Johann George Wicke.

12. An act for dissolving the Marriage of Edward Jervis Ricketts Esquire, with the Honourable Cassandra Twisleton, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

13. An act for naturalizing Pierre Jacques Papillon and Pierre Francois Papillon.

14. An act for naturalizing George Christopher Moller.

15. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Open, and Common Fields, Meadows, Commonable Lands, and Waste Grounds, in the Parish of Molesworth, in the County of Huntingdon.

16. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Commons and Waste Grounds, within the Parish of Rackheath, in the County of Norfolk.

17. An act for dividing and allotting certain Waste Lands, and Open and Common Fields, within the Parishes of Leintwardine, Burrington, Downton, Aston, and Elton, in the County of Hereford.

18. An act for dividing and allotting several Open and Common Lands and Grounds, within the Tithing of Oare, in the Parishes of Wilcot and Huish, in the County of Wilts.

19. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Parish of Remenham, in the County of Berks.

20. An act for confirming and establishing a Division and Inclosure of the Open and Common Fields and Pastures, within the Manors or Lordships of Nether Seal and Over Seal, in the Parish of Nether Seal, in the Counties of Leicester and Derby, or one of them, and certain Exchanges of Lands and Estates within the said Parish.

21. An act to dissolve the Marriage of William Williams with Mary Charlotte his now Wife, late Mary Charlotte Willis, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

22. An act for naturalizing Godfrey Bitterman.

23. An act for naturalizing Salomon Lange.

24. An act for naturalizing Christian John Adam Withe.

25. An act for naturalizing George Bong.

26. An act for naturalizing John Philip Marindin.

27. An act for naturalizing John De Luc.

28. An act for naturalizing Justin Eliza Caesar Audra.

29. An act for naturalizing Adrien Charles Papillon.

30. An act for naturalizing Lorents Braun.

31. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Half Year or Shack Lands, Warrens or reputed Warrens, Commons, Heaths, Commonable Lands, and Waste Grounds, within the Parishes of Hevingham and Marsham, in the County of Norfolk; and for extinguishing all Rights of Sheepwalk, Shackage, and Common, in, over, and upon all the Lands and Grounds within the said Parishes.

32. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Commons and Waste Lands within the Manor of Bromsgrove, in the County of Worcester.

33. An act to dissolve the Marriage of William Henry Ricketts Esquire, with the Right Honourable Lady Elizabeth Jane Lambart, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

34. An act for naturalizing John Gabriel Migault.

35. An act for naturalizing John Daniel Humbert.

36. An act for naturalizing Charles Henry Rigaud.

37. An act for naturalizing Francis Henry Christin.

38. An act for vesting certain Parts of the Lands and Barony of Craigiehall, lying in the County of Linlithgow, and comprised in the Deed of Entail executed by the deceased Sophia Marchioness of Annandale, with Consent of William Marquis of Annandale, her Husband, upon the thirty-first July one thousand seven hundred and eight; and also for vesting certain Parts and Parcels of the Lands and Barony of Leny, lying in the County of Edinburgh, and comprised in a Disposition and Deed of Entail thereof, dated the third November one thousand seven hundred and forty six, granted by Sir Robert Myrton. of Gogar, Baronet, with Consent therein mentioned in Trustees, in Trust, to sell or exchange the same, and invest the Money arising from such Sale in the Purchase or Exchange of other Lands to be settled and secured to the same Series of Heirs, and under the same Conditions and Limitations as are contained in the aforesaid Deeds of Entail; and for vesting in William Hope Weir Esquire, of Craigiehall and Blackwood, and the same Series of Heirs, in Fee Tail, certain other Parts of the said Lands, Baronies, and others.

39. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Pastures, Downs, Wastes, and other Commonable Lands, within the several Hamlets or Tithings of Herrington, Broad Campden, and Westington, in the Parish of Chipping Campden, in the County of Gloucester.

40. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, a certain Tract or Piece of Commonable Land called Leigh Common, situate in the Tything of Leigh, in the Parish of Yetminster, in the County of Dorset.

41. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, certain Moors, Commons, or Waste Lands, lying and being within the Manor and Parish of Clevedon, in the County of Somerset.

42. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Whole Year Lands Fen Lands, Heaths, Commons, and Waste Grounds within the Parish of Keninghall, in the County of Norfolk.

43. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Lammas Meadows, Fen Grounds, Commons, and Waste Lands, within the Parishes of Bressingham and Fersfield, in the County of Norfolk, for extinguishing all Rights of Common, Sheepwalk, and Shackage, in, over, and upon, all the Lands and Grounds within the said Parishes.

44. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open Common Fields, Common Downs, and ail Commonable Places and Waste Lands, in the Parish of Easton, in the County of Southampton.

45. An act to amend, and render more effectual, the Power of Exchange in an Act, passed in the thirty-seventh Year of His present Majesty’s Reign, intituled, An Act for dividing and enclosing the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Pastures, Waste Lands, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Parish of Southill, in the County of Bedford.

46. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Common Fields, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the Parish of Great Ellingham, in the County of Norfolk.

47. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Pastures, Commonable Lands, and Waste Grounds, within the Parish and Manor of Horton, in the County of Buckingham.

48. An act to dissolve the Marriage of the Most Honourable John James Marquis of Abercomy with the Most Honourable Cecil Hamilton his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

49. An act to dissolve the Marriage of John Stanton with Sarah Wright, his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

50. An act for naturalizing Catherine Nassau.

51. An act for naturalizing Henry von dem Busch.

52. An act for naturalizing Diederick Arnold Bielfeld.

53. An act for naturalizing Henry Berthoud.

54. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, certain Commons, Waste Lands, and Commonable Places, within the Manors of Forfield, Bromhill, Bellbroughton, and Brians Bell, in the Parish of Bellbroughton, in the County of Worcester.

55. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Commons, Waste Lands, and Commonable Places, within the Parish of Rowley Regis, in the County of Stafford.

56. An act for vesting divers Lands and Hereditaments in the County of Bucks, entailed by the Will of John late Duke of Bedford in Francis Duke of Bedford, in Fee Simple, and for settling other Estates in the said County of greater Value in lieu thereof.

57. An act for vesting Part of the Settled Estates of Robert Clutterbuck Esquire, in Trustees, to be sold, and for applying Part of the Money arising therefrom, under the Direction of the Court of Chancery, in Manner, and for the Purposes therein mentioned, and for laying out the Residue in the Purchase of other Estates, to be settled in lieu thereof, and to the same Uses.

58. An act for confirming, and rendering effectual, a Partition between Lewis John Marie Haussoullier Esquire, and Tryphena Trist Spinster, an Infant, of divers Manors, Boroughs, Lands, and Hereditaments, in the County of Devon.

59. An act for empowering the Judges of the Court of Session in Scotland to sell such Part or Parts of the Estate of Machermore, in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, which belonged to Patrick Dunbar, late of Machermore, Esquire, as shall be sufficient for Payment of the Debts of the said Patrick Dunbar, and his Predecessors, and the Sums with which he charged the said Estate.

60. An act for dividing and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Pastures, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, within the Liberties and Precincts of Greens Norton, and Hamlet of Durcott, in the Parish of Greens Norton, in the County of Northampton.

61. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Open Fields, Meadows, Downs, Marshes, Commonable Lands, and Waste Grounds, within the Parish of Charlton Marshall, in the County of Dorset.

62. An act for dividing and inclosing the Commons and Commonable Lands in the Parish of Mapowder, in the County of Dorset.

63. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Open Common Fields, Ings, Marsh, and Waste Grounds, within the Township of Hirst Courtney, in the Parish of Birkin, in the West Riding of the County of York.

64. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, and other Commonable Lands, in the Parish of Purton, otherwise Puriton, in the County of Wilts.

65. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing all the Commons and Waste Lands and Grounds within the Parish of Church Staunton, in the County of Devon.

66. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, and Common or Commonable Meadows, Pastures, Lands, and Grounds, and Common or Waste Lands, within the Parish of Sherborne, in the County of Warwick.

67. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Common Fields, Half Year or Shack Lands, Common Meadows, Heaths, Commonable Lands, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the Parish of Honington, in the County of Suffolk.

68. An act for confirming and establishing the Division, Allotment, and Inclosure of certain Whole Year Lands, Common Fields, Half Year or Shack Lands, Commons, and Waste Grounds, in the Parish of Ranworth, in the County of Norfolk.

69. An act for dividing, allotting, and otherwise improving, several Stinted Moors, Stinted Pastures, Wastes, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, within the Park and Forest of Weardale, in the Parish of Stanhope, in the County of Durham.

70. An act for dividing and inclosing the Commons, Waste, Grounds, and Modes, within the Town and Hamlet of Ulverstone, in the Parish of Ulverstone, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

71. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Commons and Waste Grounds, and Stinted Pastures, within the Hamlet of Moorgate, in the Parish of Clarbrough, in the County of Nottingham.

72. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing certain Moors, Commons, and Waste Lands, lying and being within the Parishes of South Brent and Lympsham, in the County of Somerset.

73. An act for dividing and inclosing the Commons and Waste Lands within the Manor of Water Eaton, in the County of Stafford.

74. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Pastures, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the Township and Liberty of Harworth, in the County of Nottingham.

73. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open and Common Fields, Common Lammas Meadows, and a certain Common called Cheshunt Common, within the Parish of Cheshunt, in the County of Hertford.

76. An act for dividing and allotting the Open and Common Fields, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Parishes of Stratford-under-the-Castle and Milford, in the County of Wilts.

77. An act to dissolve the Marriage of Shuldham Peard Esquire, with Elizabeth his now Wife, late Elizabeth Blight and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

78. An act to dissolve the Marriage of John Thoroton Clerk, with Elizabeth his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

79. An act for naturalizing Maria Groschner, otherwise Huntley.

80. An act for naturalizing Simeon Jacob Charles Collet D’Escury.

81. An act for naturalizing William Conrad Korff.

82. An act for naturalizing Abraham Zimon Doncker Cuvelje.

83. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open Arable Fields, Open Meadows, Common Pastures, Common Grounds, and Waste Grounds, in the Township of Grasthorpe, in the County of Nottingham.

84. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open and Common Fields, Meadows, Pastures, Commons, and Waste Lands, within the Parishes of Houghton and South Stoke, in the County of Sussex.

85. An act for dividing and enclosing several Open Fields and Stinted Pastures within the Township of Long Preston in the Parish of Long Preston, in the West Riding of the County of York; and for embanking and draining several Parcels of Ground within the same Township, called Long Preston Ings.

86. An act for dividing and inclosing a Moor or Common called Knayton Moor, and other Waste Lands, within the Township of Knayton, and Parish of Leek, in the North Riding of the County of York.

87. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Common Fields, Undivided Enclosures, Commons, Waste Grounds, and Commonable Places, within the Townships of Sandall Magna, Walton, and Crigglestone, in the Parish of Sandall Magna, in the West Riding of the County of York.

88. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Pastures, and other Commonable and Waste Lands, Grounds, and Places, within the Hamlet of Walton, in the Parish of Aylesbury, in the County of Buckingham.

89. An act for dividing, allotting, inclosing, and improving, divers Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Pastures, and other Commonable Lands and Waste Grounds, within the several Parishes of Lyddington with Caldecott and Uppingham, in the County of Rutland, and also a Common or Waste within the same County, called Uppingham Brand; and for extinguishing all the Tythes arising within the same Parishes, and all the Deer Browse and Rights of Common upon Beaumont Chace, in the same County; and making a Compensation for such Tythes and Common Rights respectively.

90. An act to amend an Act passed in the thirty-fourth Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for dividing and inclosing the Open Fields and Common in the Township of Aithorpe, in the County of Lincoln, and for draining the same and certain inclosed Lands within the said Township.

91. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open and Common Fields, Commons, Wastes, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, in the Parish of Carlton cum Willingham, in the County of Cambridge, and for extinguishing the Tythes in the same Parish.

92. An act for vesting Part of the Settled Estate of Richard Long Esquire, deceased, in Trustees, to be conveyed pursuant to Articles entered into for the Sale thereof, and for applying the Money arising therefrom for the several Purposes therein mentioned.

93. An act for vesting the Inheritance in Fee Simple of Part of the Settled Estates of Sir Henry Every Baronet, in Trustees, in Trust to make Sale thereof, and to apply the Money produced by such Sale, or a competent Part thereof, in Payment and Discharge of divers Debts, Charges, and Incumbrances, affecting the same, and to invert the Surplus of such Money, (if any such shall be) in the Purchase of other Lands or Hereditaments to be settled to the same Uses.

94. An act for effecting an Exchange of Lands between the Trustees of the Free Grammar School in Watton under Edge, in the County of Gloucester, and Nicholas Owen Smythe Owen Esquire.

95. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Arable Lands, intermixed Fields, Meadows and Pastures, Commons and Waste Grounds, within the respective Manors of Pattingham and Patshull, in the County of Stafford.

96. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Common, Fen Droves, and Waste Lands, in the Parish of Gosberton, in the County of Lincoln.

97. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open Fields, Meadows, and Pastures, within the Parishes of Yarkhill, Weston Beggard, Dormington, with the Chapelry of Bartestree, in the said Parish of Dormington and Stoke Edith with the Chapelry of Westhide, in the said Parish of Stoke Edith, all in the County of Hereford.

98. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the several Moors, Commons, and Waste Lands, lying and being within the Parish of Axbridge, in the County of Somerset.

99. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Open Common Fields, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the several Manors or Townships of Brayton, Thorp Willowby, Burton, and Gateforth with Lund, in the Parish of Brayton, in the West Riding of the County of York.

100. An act to divide, allot, inclose, and improve, the several Open Fields, Commons, and Waste Grounds, and other Open and Uninclosed Lands, in the Parish of Tuxford, in the County of Nottingham.

101. An act for dividing, allotting, and otherwise improving, all the Common Fields, Commons, Wastes, and other Commonable Lands and Grounds, within the Manor and Parish of Teddington, otherwise Todington, otherwise Tettington, otherwise, Tuddington, in the County of Middlesex.

102. An act to dissolve the Marriage of Sir Hyde Parker Knight, with Ann Bottler, his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

103. An act to dissolve the Marriage of Charles Collins Campbell Esquire, a Major in the Army, with Harriet Fraser, his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

104. An act to dissolve the Marriage of John Buller, of Calcutta, in the Province of Bengal, in the East Indies, Esquire, with Eliza Catherine Wiggens, his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

105. An act for naturalizing John Lewis Reinaud.

106. An act for naturalizing Philipp Fredrick Behrends.

107. An act for naturalizing Francis Louis Count Byland.

108. An act for enabling Trustees to convey, pursuant to a Contract of Sale already entered into, an Estate at Charleywood, in the Parish of Rickmersworth, in the County of Herts, late belonging to Sir David Lindsay Baronet, deceased, devised, in strict Settlement, by a Codicil to his Will; and for laying out the Money arising therefrom in the Purchase of other Estates, to be settled to the same Uses, with Power of leasing the Estates to be settled.

109. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Common Pastures, and Waste Lands, within the Parishes of Kempsford and Dryffield, in the County of Gloucester.

110. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Commons or Waste Grounds within or belonging to the Manor of King’s Bromley, and also certain Open Meadows or Lands within the Parish or Manor of King’s Bromley aforesaid, in the County of Stafford.

111. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the several Commons, Moors, and Waste Grounds, within the Manor of Cumberworth, with Cumberworth Half, in the Parishes of Silkstone and Kirkburton, in the West Riding of the County of York.

112. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the several Commons, Moors, and Waste Grounds, within the Manor of North Crossland, in the Parish of Almondbury, in the West Riding of the County of York.

113. An act for inclosing and leasing, or letting, certain Common Moors and Waste Grounds lying within the Township of Kirkheaton, in the West Riding of the County of York, and applying the Profits thereof in Aid of the Poors Rate, Highway Rate, and Church Rate, within the said Township; and for confirming and establishing the Division, Allotments, and Inclosure, of the Open and Uninclosed Fields, and also several Exchanges of Lands within the said Township.

114. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the several Commons and Waste Lands within the Manor and Township of Dalton, in the Parish of Kirkheaton, in the West Riding of the County of York.

115. An act for dividing and allotting the Whole Year or Every Year Lands, Common Fields, Half Year or Shack Lands, Common Meadows, Heaths, Warrens, Fens, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the Parish of Worlington, in the County of Suffolk.

116. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Open and Common Fields and other Commonable Lands, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the Manor and Hamlet of Singleborough, in the Parish of Great Horwood, in the County of Buckingham.

117. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, and other Open and Commonable Lands and Waste Grounds, lying in the Parnhes of Grantchester and Coton, in the County of Cambridge.

118. An act for dividing, allotting, and inclosing the Open and Common Fields, Common Meadows, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the Parish and Manor of Wyrardisbury, otherwise Wraisbury, in the County of Buckingham.

119. An act for naturalizing George Erck.

120. An act for dividing, allotting, inclosing, and laying in Severalty, the Common and Open Fields, Common Meadows, Commonable Lands, Commons, and Waste Grounds, within the Parish of Pampisford, in the County of Cambridge.