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XVI. An Act to explain so much of the general Turnpike Act, as relates to the toll payable on carriages laden with lime for the improvement of land. (24 March.)

XVII. An Act to repeal certain provisions of an Act passed in the third year of his present majesty, intituled, "an Act to amend certain provisions of the twenty-sixth of George the Second, for the better preventing of clandestine marriages." (26 March.) XVIII. An Act concerning the disposition of certain property of his majesty, his heirs and successors. (26 March.)

XIX. An Act for further regulating the reduction of the national debt. (26 March.)

XX. An Act for fixing the rates of subsistence to be paid to inn-keepers and others on quartering soldiers. (2 May.)

XXI. An Act for granting and applying certain sums of money for the service of the year 1823. (2 May.) XXII, An Act to confirm an agreement entered into by the trustees under an Act of the last session of parliament, for apportioning the burthen occasioned by the military and naval pensions, and civil superannuations, with the governor and company of the Bank of England.

XXIII. An Act to consolidate the several boards of Customs, and also the several boards of Excise, of Great Britain and Ireland. (2 May.) XXIV. An Act to make more effectual provision for permitting goods imported to be secured in Warehouses, or other places, without payment of duty on the first entry thereof. (12 May.)

XXV. An Act for regulating the number of apprentices to be taken on board British merchant vessels; and for preventing the desertion of seamen therefrom. (12 May.) XXVI. An Act to repeal the duties on certain articles, and to provide for the gradual discontinuance of the duties on certain other articles, the manufacture of Great Britain and Ireland respectively, on their importation into either country from the other. (23 May.)

XXVII. An Act to amend an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of -his late majesty King George the Third, respecting justices of the

quorum in cities and towns corporate. (23 May.)

XXVIII. An Act for the more speedy reduction of the number of serjeants, corporals, and drummers in the militia of Ireland, when not in actual seivice. (23 May.)

XXIX. An Act to increase the power of magistrates, in cases of Apprenticeships. (23 May.)

XXX. An Act to regulate the importa tion and exportation of certain articles subject to duties of excise, and certain other articles the produce or manufacture of Great Britain and Ireland respectively, into and from either country from and to the other. (30 May.)

XXXI. An Act to amend an Act passed in the nineteenth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, "an Act more effectually to prevent profane cursing and swearing." (30 May.) XXXII. An Act for the amendment of the laws respecting charitable lean societies in Ireland. (30 May.) XXXIII. An Act to make more effectual regulations for the election, and to secure the performance of the duties, of county treasurers in Ireland. (30 May.)

XXXIV. An Act to enlarge the powers of justices in determining complaints between masters and servants, and between masters, apprentices, artificers, and others. (17 June.) XXXV. An Act to enable trustees or commissioners under acts of parliament to meet and carry such acts into execution, although they may not have met according to the directions of such acts. (27 June.) XXXVI. An Act to discourage the granting of leases in joint tenancy in Ireland. (27 Jume.)

XXXVII. An Act to amend an Act for the more speedy return and levying of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and recognizances estreated. (27 June.)

XXXVII. An Act for settling the com

pensation to the holders of certain offices in the courts of law in Ireland, abolished under an act passed in the first and second years of the reign of his present majesty, for regulating the same. (27 June.) XXXIX. An Act to continue an Act of the last session of parliament, for allowing a drawback of the whole of

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XLII. An Act to amend several Acts for the assistance of trade and manufactures, and the support of commercial credit in Ireland. (27 June). XLIII. An Act to regulate the amount

of presentments by grand juries, for payment of the public officers of the several counties in Ireland. (27 June.) XLIV. An Act to repeal the duties and drawbacks on Barilla imported into the United Kingdom, and to grant other duties and drawbacks in lieu thereof. (27 June.)

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XLV. An Act for allowing persons to compound for their assessed taxes for the remainder of the periods of composition limited by former acts; and for giving relief in certain cases therein mentioned. (4 July.) XLVI. An Act for repealing the capital punishments inflicted by several Acts of the sixth and twenty-seventh years of King George the Second, and of the third, fourth, and twenty-second years of King George the Third; and for providing other punishments in lieu thereof, and in lieu of the pu nishment of frame-breaking under an Act of the twenty-eighth year of the same reign. (4 July.) XLVII. An Act for authorizing the em ployment at labour, in the colonies, of male convicts under sentence of transportation. (4 July.) XLVIII. An Act for enabling courts to abstain from pronouncing sentence of death in certain capital felonies. (4 July.)

XLIX. An Act for regulating turnpike roads in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

L. An Act for the rebuilding of London Bridge, and for improving and making suitable approaches thereto. (4 July.)

LI. An Act to encourage the consump

tion of beer; and to amend the laws for securing the excise duties thereon. (8 July.)

LII. An Act to alter and amend the law relating to the interment of the re

mains of any person found Felo de se. (8 July.)

LIII. An Aet for extending the benefit of clergy to several larcenies therein mentioned. (8 July.)

LIV. An Act for allowing the benefit of clergy to persons convicted of certain felonies under two Acts, of the ninth year of King George the First and of the twenty-seventh year of King George the Second; for making better provision for the punishment of persons guilty of sending or delivering threatening letters, and of assaults with intent to commit robbery. (8 July.)

LV. An Act to consolidate and amend the several Acts now in force, so far as the same relate to the election and return of members to serve in parlia ment, for counties of cities and counties of towns in Ireland. (8 July.) LVI. An Act for maintaining in repair the military and parliamentary roads and bridges in the Highlands of Scotland, and also certain ferry-piers and shipping-quays erected by the commissioners for Highland roads and bridges. (8 July.)

LVII. An Act to defer the commencement of the duties and drawbacks on barilla, under an Act of this present session of parliament. (9 July.) LVIII. An Act to continue, until the 1st Day of August, 1824, an Act, made in the last session of parliament for suppressing insurrections and preventing disturbances of the public peace in Ireland. (9 July.) LIX. An Act to defray the charge of the pay, clothing, and contingent and other expenses of the disembodied militia in Great Britain and Ireland; and to grant allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers, adjutants, quartermasters, surgeons, assistant surgeons, surgeons mates, and serjeant majors of militia, until the 25th day of March, 1824. (9 July.) LX. An Act for granting to his majesty a sum of money to be raised by lot teries. (9 July.)

LXI. An Act for the better administra tion of justice in the court of Chancery in Ireland. (10 July.) LXII. An Act to repeal the duties upon horses let to hire for the purpose of travelling in Great Britain, and to grant other duties in lieu thereof; and to provide for letting the same to farm. (10 July.)

LXIII. An Act to authorize the advance of money by the commissioners under several Acts for the issue of exchequer bills for public works, for the building, rebuilding, enlarging, or repairing of gaols in England. (10 July.)

LXIV. An Act for consolidating and amending the laws relating to the building, repairing, and regulating of certain gaols and houses of correction in England and Wales. (10 July.) LXV. An Act to extend two Acts of his late majesty, for distribution of prize money, to all cases of capture that have been made by foreign ships or land forces in conjunction with his majesty's ships or land forces. (10 July.)

LXVI. An Act to authorize, in certain cases the reduction of the duties, payable in Ireland, and the alteration of the duties and drawbacks on the importation and exportation of goods between Great Britain and Ireland. (10 July.)

LXVII. An Act to declare valid certain marriages that have been solemnized at St. Petersburg since the abolition of the British factory there. July.) LXVIII. An Act for rectifying mistakes

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in the names of the land-tax commissioners, and for appointing additional commissioners, and indemnifying such persons as have acted without due authority in execution of the Acts therein recited. (10 July.) LXIX. An Act to repeal certain duties

of customs in Great Britain, and to grant other duties in lieu thereof; to grant certain bounties on salted provisions and silk manufactures exported; and to make more effectual regulations for collecting the duties of customs. (11 July.)

LXX. An Act for the better administration of justice in the equity side of the court of exchequer in Ireland. (11 July.)

LXXI. An Act for defraying the charge

of retiring pay, pensions, and other expences of that nature, of his majesty's forces serving in India; for establishing the pensions of the bishop, archdeacons, and judges; for regulating ordinations; and for establishing a court of judicature at Bombay. (11 July.)

LXXII. An Act to repeal the several

duties and drawbacks of customs

chargeable and allowable in Ireland, on the importation and exportation of certain foreign and colonial goods, wares and merchandize, and to grant other duties and drawbacks in lieu thereof, equal to the duties and drawbacks chargeable and allowable there. on in Great Britain. (11 July.) LXXIII. An Act to facilitate the recovery of Damages for malicious injuries to property in Ireland. (11 July.)

LXXIV. An Act for vesting in commissioners the bridges now building over the Menai Straits and the river Conway, and the harbours of Howth and Holyhead, and the road from Dublin to Howth; and for the further improvement of the road from London to Holyhead. (11 July.) LXXV. An Act for enabling his majesty to enclose part of Kew Green, and for dividing and extinguishing rights of common over certain lands in the parish of Kew in the county of Surrey. (11 July.)

LXXVI. An Act for amending the laws respecting the solemnization of marriages in England. (18 July.) LXXVII. An Act to authorize his majesty, under certain circumstances, to regulate the duties and drawbacks on goods imported or exported in foreign vessels; and to exempt certain foreign vessels from pilotage. (18 July.) LXXVIII. An Act to grant additional stamp duties on certain proceedings in the court of chancery and in the equity side of the court of exchequer in Ireland. (18 July.)

LXXIX. An Act for building additional

places of worship in the Highlands and islands of Scotland. (18 July.) LXXX. An Act to consolidate and amend the several laws now in force with respect to trade from and to places within the limits of the charter of the East India Company, and to make further provisions with respect to such trade; and to amend an Act of the present session of parliament, for the registering of vessels, so far as it relates to vessels registered in India. (18 July.)

LXXXI. An Act to consolidate and

amend the laws for punishing mutiny and desertion of officers and soldiers in the service of the East India Company; and to authorize soldiers and sailors in the East Indies to send and receive letters at a reduced rate of postage. (18 July.),

LXXXII. An Act to authorize for one year, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, the temporary removal of convicts from the general penitentiary. (18 July.)

LXXXIII. An Act for the better protection of the property of merchants and others, who may hereafter enter into contracts or agreements in relation to goods, wares, or merchandizes intrusted to factors or agents. (18 July.)

LXXXIV. An Act to repeal the laws for regulating vessels carrying passengers from the United Kingdom to foreign parts, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof. (18 July.) LXXXV. An Act for empowering com

missioners, to be appointed by his majesty, to inquire into the forms of process in the courts of law in Scotland, and the cause of appeals from the court of sessions to the House of Lords. (18 July.)

LXXXVI, An Act to amend the laws for collecting church rates, and money advanced by the trustees and commissioners of the first fruits of ecclesiastical benefices, and for the improvement of church lands, in Ireland. (18 July.)

LXXXVII. An Act to amend and render more effectual the provisions of an Act, made in the fiftieth year of his late majesty's reign, for preventing the administering and taking unlawful oaths in Ireland. (18 July.) LXXXVIII. An Act for regulating ves

sels carrying passengers between Great Britain and Ireland. (18 July.) LXXXIX. An Act to limit and regulate the expense of certain proceedings in the courts of justice in Ire land in the particulars therein mentioned. (18 July.)

XC. An Act to regulate the linen and
hempen manufactures of Ireland. (18
July.)

XCI. An Act to relieve his majesty's
subjects from all doubt concerning
the validity of certain marriages so-
lemnized abroad. (18 July.)
XCII. An Act for extending the an-
nuity granted to earl St. Vincent to
the present viscount St. Vincent, and
the next person to whom the title of
viscount St. Vincent shall descend.
(18 July.)

XCIII. An Act to divide the county of
Cork, for the purpose of holding ad-

ditional general sessions therein. (18 July.)

XCIV. An Act to grant certain duties of excise upon spirits distilled from corn or grain in Scotland and Ireland, and upon licences for stills for making such spirits; and to provide for the better collecting and securing such duties, and for the warehousing of such spirits without payment of duty. (18 July.)

XCV. An Act to explain and amend an Act, passed in the Third year of the reign of his present majesty, to amend the general laws now in being for regulating turnpike roads in that part of Great Britain called England. (19 July.)

XCVI. An Act to provide, until the 1st day of July, 1827, and until the end of the next session of parliament, for the better administration of justice in New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land, and for the more effectual government thereof; and for other purposes relating thereto. (19 July.)

XCVII. An Act for the regulation of
the court of the commissaries of
Edinburgh; and for altering and re-
gulating the jurisdiction of inferior
commissaries in Scotland.

XCVIII. An Act for the better granting
of confirmations in Scotland.
XCIX. An Act to provide for the esta-
blishing of compositions for tithes in
Ireland for a limited time.

C. An Act for raising the sum of four

teen millions seven hundred thousand pounds by exchequer bills; for applying a certain sum of money for the service of the year 1823; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

PUBLIC ACTS

Of a Local and Personal Nature, and to be noticed by the Courts.

i. AN Act for building a bridge over the river Severn, at or near the Haw Passage, in the county of Gloucester, and for making convenient roads thereto.

ii. An Act for building a bridge over the river Severn, at or near to the Mythe Hill, within the parish and near to the town of Tewkesbury in

the county of Gloucester, to the opposite side of the said river, in the : parish of Bushley in the county of Worcester; and for making convenient roads and avenues to communicate with such bridge, within the counties of Gloucester and Worcester.

iii. An Act for lighting, cleansing, watching, and otherwise improving the town and borough of Darlington, in the county of Durham.

iv. An Act to amend and enlarge the powers and provisions of an Act of his late majesty King George the Third, for the improvement of Portman Square, within the parish of St. Mary-le-bone, in the county of Middlesex.

V. An Act for lighting with gas the town and borough of Plymouth, and places adjacent, in the county of De

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vi. An Act for more effectually amending, improving, and keeping in repair, several roads in the counties of Cornwall and Devon, leading to the borough of Saltash in the county of Cornwall.

vii. An Act to rectify a mistake in an Act passed in the Third year of the reign of his present majesty, for more effectually improving the roads leading from the east side of Lincoln Heath to the city of Peterborough, and several other roads therein mentioned, in the counties of Northampton and Lincoln; and for making a new branch of road to communicate with the said roads, from Bourn to Spalding in the said county of Lincoln.

viii. An Act for repairing and amending

the road from the city of Peterborough through Oundle and Thrapston to Wellingborough in the county of Northampton, and several other roads near or adjoining thereto. ix. An Act for building a bridge and making a causeway from Langstone, in the parish of Havant in the county of Southampton, to Hayling Island in the parish of Hayling North in the said county, at or near a certain house there called The Ferry House; and for forming and making proper roads, approaches, or avenues thereto. x. An Act for erecting a bridge over the water of Lary, from Pomphlet Point, to or near to Great Prince Rock, in the county of Devon,

xi. An Act for erecting and maintaining a new court room, record rooms, and other offices, for the county of Forfar.

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xii. An Act for more effectually making, repairing, and improving the roads from Union Point near Uckfield to the Sea Houses in Eastbourne, and from Horsebridge to Cross in Hand, all in the county of Sussex. xiii. An Act for more effectually repairing the road from Preston to Garstang in the county of Lancaster, xiv. An Act for making and maintaining

a turnpike road from Stroud to Bisley in the county of Gloucester.

xv. An Act for repairing and improving the roads from the town of Stockbridge to the city of Winchester, and from the said city of Winchester to the top of Stephen's Castle Down, near the town of Bishop's Waltham, in the county of Southampton, and from the said city of Winchester through Otterborne to Bar Gate in the town and county of the town of Southampton, and certain roads adjoining thereto.

xvi. An Act for making and maintaining a turnpike road from and out of the road leading from Quebec in Leeds, to Homefield Lane End in Wortley, to communicate with the road leading from Huddersfield to Birstall, at Smithie's Lane, in the West Riding of the county of York.

xvii. An Act for more effectually making and repairing the roads between Newton Abbott and Brixham, Kingswear and Dartmouth, Shaldon and Torquay, and several other roads communicating therewith, in the county of Devon.

xviii. An Act to enable the Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal Company to borrow a further sum of money. xix. An Act for the improvement, more effectual security, and maintenance of the harbour of Bridport, in the county of Dorset.

xx. An Act for amending an Act of the Third year of his present majesty, for continuing and altering six former Acts of their late majesties King George the Second and King George the Third, for enlarging the piers and harbour of Scarborough in the county of York.

xxi. An Act for appointing select vestrymen, governors, and directors of the poor of the parish of St. Matthew

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