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The TITLES of the STATUTES. and a Lottery; and for consolidating certain Annuities, which were made one joint Stock by an Act made in the second Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, with certain Annuities consolidated by several Acts made in the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth Years of the Reign of King George the Second, and in the fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty.

15. An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen, and for the more speedy and effectual Manning his Majesty's Navy.

16. An Act for repealing the Discounts and Abatements upon certain foreign Goods; and for granting additional Duties upon Tobacco and Sugar imported into Great Britain.

17. An Act for granting to his Majesty an additional Duty upon the Produce of the several Duties under the Management of the respective Commissioners of the Excise in Great Britain.

18. An Act for keeping the Militia Forces of this Kingdom complete, during the Time therein mentioned.

19. An Act to permit the Importation of Flax and Flax Seed into this Kingdom or Ireland, in any Ship or Vessel belonging to any kingdom or State in Amity with his Majesty, navigated with foreign Mariners, during the present Hostilities.

20. An Act for declaring certain Provisions of an Act, made in the thirteenth Year of his present Majesty, relating to the Turnpike Roads in that Part of Great Britain called England, to extend to all Acts made, and to be made, for repairing Roads subsequent to the passing of the said Act.

21. 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, beginning the twenty-fifth Day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.

22. An Act for improving the Navigation of the River called Bourn Eau, from the Town of Bourn to its Junction with the River Glen at a Place called Tongue End, in the County of Lincoln.

23. An Act for appointing Commissioners for putting in Execution an Act of this Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.

24. An Act for repealing the present Duties upon Paper, Pasteboards, Millboards, and Scaieboards, made in Great Britain, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof.

25. 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 limited by Law, and for giving further Time for those Purposes; and 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 stamped, have been lost or mislaid; and for allowing them Time to provide Admissions duly stamped; and to give further Time to such Persons as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors.

26. An Act to permit Goods, the Product or Manufacture of certain Places within the Levant or Mediterranean Seas, to be imported into Great Britain or Ireland in British or Foreign Vessels from any Place whatsoever; and for laying a Duty on Cotton and Cotton Wool imported into this Kingdom in Foreign Ships or Vessels, during the present Hostilities.

27. An Act to permit, during the present Hostilities, the Importation of Goods, the Produce of the Plantations of the Crown of Portugal, into Great Britain or Ireland, in Portuguese Vessels; and the Importation of certain other Goods, therein enumerated, in any Neutral Ships and Vessels.

28. An Act for allowing further Time for the Exportation of, or Payment of the Duties upon Bugles, when warehoused upon Importation into this Kingdom; and for obviating a Doubt with respect to charging the Duties on Rum imported from Scotland into the Isle of Man.

29. An Act to continue several Laws relating to the opening and establishing certain Free Ports in the Island of Jamaica; to the allowing the free Importation of Sago powder and Vermicelli from his Majesty's Colonies in North America; to the free Importation of certain Raw Hides and Skins from Ireland, and the British Plantations in America; to the allowing the Exportation of Provisions, Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, to certain Places in North America, which are or may be under the Protection of his Majesty's Arms, and from such Places to Great Britain and other Parts of his Majesty's Dominions; to the clandestine running of uncustomed Goods, and preventing Frauds relating to the Customs; to the preventing the clandestine running of Goods, and the Danger of Infection thereby; to the encouraging the Growth of Coffee in his Majesty's Plantations in America; to the preventing the committing of Frauds by Bankrupts; and to revive and continue several Laws relating to allowing the Exportation of certain Quantities of Wheat and other Articles to his Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America; to the impowering his Majesty to prohibit the Exportation, and restrain the carrying coast-wise, of Copper in Bars, or Copper in Sheets; to the allowing a Drawback of the Duties on Rum shipped as Stores to be consumed on Board Merchant ships on their Voyages; and to the allowing a Bounty on the Exportation of British Corn and Grain in Neutral Ships.

30. An Act for continuing, and making more effectual, several Acts of Parliament passed for cleansing and making navigable the Channel from the Hythe at Colchester to Wivenhoe, in the County of Essex; and for repairing and cleansing the Streets of the Town of Colchester; and also for lighting the Streets and Lanes, and for preventing Annoyances in the said Town.

31. An Act for the better Management and Collection of the Duties upon Male Servants, granted by an Act made in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty. --- 32. An Act to encourage the Manufactory of Verdegrease in Great Britain, and for laying a Duty on foreign Verdegrease imported.

33. An Act for building a Bridge over the River Thames, at the Town of Henley upon Thames, in the County of Oxford, and making commodious Avenues therero; for widening some Part of the High Street and the Market Place; for lighting and watching, for regulating the Footways in, and for removing Nuisances, Obstructions, and Annoyances from, the said Town.

34. An Act for further continuing and amending the several Acts passed for preventing the Frauds and Abuses committed in the Admeasurement of Coals within the City and Liberty of Westminster, and that Part of the Duchy of Lancaster adjoining thereto, and the several Parishes of Saint Giles in the Fields, and Saint Mary le Bon, and such Part of the Parish of Saint Andrew, Holborn, as lies in the County of Middlesex.

35. An Act for building a Bridge over the River Adur, at or near Old Shoreham, in the County of Sussex. 36. An