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The TITLES of the STATUTES. 36. An Act for amending, regulating, cleansing, lighting, watching, and keeping in Repair, the Streets, Lanes, and Passages, within the Borough of The Devizes, in the County of Wilts, and for preventing Nuisances, Annoyances, and Obstructions therein.

37. An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the fourteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act to prevent the Exportation to foreign Parts of Utensils made use of in the Cotton, Linen, Woollen, and Silk Manufactures of this Kingdom.

38. An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of small Debts, within the Town and Liberties of Beverley, in the County of York, and the several Parishes of the same Town.

39. An Act for further securing the Property of the Owners in such Ships or Vessels as are liable to Forfeiture for importing Spirits or other Goods, by the Misconduct of the Masters, Mates, and Seamen.

40. An Act for extending the Provisions of three Acts made in the twenty-ninth Year of his late Majesty, and in the tenth and nineteenth Years of his present Majesty's Reign, for granting a Bounty on certain Species of British and Irish Linens exported, to British and Irish Linens, British Callicoes and Cottons, or Cotton mixed with Linen, printed, painted, or stained, in Great Britain, and to Buckrams and Tilletings exported during the Time, therein limited; and for taking off the Duties payable upon the Importation of that Species of Blue called Smalts.

41. 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 eighty-one.

42. 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 eighty-one.

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43. An Act for continuing an Act, made in the twentieth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for exempting the City of Winchester, the County of Southampton, the Town of Shrewsbury, and the County of Salop, out of the Provisions of an Act, made in the eighth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for regulating the Quartering of Soldiers during the Time of the Elections of Members to serve in Parliament so far as the same relates to the Removal of Troops during the Election of Members to serve in Parliament, for a limited Time.

44. An Act for the more effectually securing to the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, all such forfeited and unclaimed Shares of Prize and Bounty Money as shall arise from or in respect of any Prizes to be condemned and sold in his Majesty's Dominions beyond the Sea; and to compel the more speedy Payment thereof,

45. An Act for continuing and amending an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for appointing and enabling Commissioners to examine, take, and fate the public Accounts of the Kingdom; and to report what Balances are in the Hands of Accountants, which may be applied to the public Service; and what Defects there are in the present Mode of receiving, collecting, ifjuing, and accounting for public Money; and in what more expeditious and effectual, and less expensive Manner, the said Services can in future be regulated and carried on for the Benefit of the Public.

46. An Act to enable John Bowater Esquire to grant Leases, in Possession or Reversion, of ai Dock-yard and Land at Woolwich, in the County of Kent (being Part of his settled Estate), to the principal Officers and Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy, on Behalf of his Majesty, his Heirs and Successors.

47. An Act to amend and enlarge the Powers of an Act passed in the eleventh Year of his present Majesty's Reign, for performing several Works, and making Improvements within the University and City of Oxford, and the Suburbs thereof, and in the adjoining Parish of Saint Clement.

48. An Act to dirc3 the Payment into the Exchequer of the respective Bdances remaining in the Hands of the several Persons therein named, for the Use and Benefit, of the Public; and for indemnifying the Laid respective Persons, and their Representatives, in respect of such Payments, and against all future Claims relating thereto; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

49. An Act for preventing certain Abuses and Profanations on the Lord’s Day, called Sunday.

50. An Act for further regulating and ascertaining the Importation and Exportation of Corn and Grain, within several Ports and Places therein mentioned.

51. An Act to explain an Act, passed in the third Year of George the First ir tituh.il. An Act for explaining an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act to oblige Papists to register their Names and real Estates, and for enlarging the Time of such Registering, and for securing Purchases made by Protestants

52. An Act for continuing the Encouragement and Reward of Persons making certain Discoveries for finding the Longitude at Sea, or making other useful Discoveries and Improvements in Navigation, and for making Experiments relating thereto.

53. An Act to render valid certain Marriages, solemnized in certain Churches and public Chapels in which Banns had not usually been published before or at the Time of parting an Act, made in the twenty-sixth Year of King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the better preventing of cl an define Marriages.

54. An Act for the better regulating Elections of Citizens to serve in Parliament for the City of Coventry.

55. An Act for repealing the Duties payable uport Chocolate made in Great Britain, and for granting certain Inland Duties upon Cocoa Nuts in Lieu therof; for the better and more efte3ual securing the Revenue of Excise, and of the Inland Duties under the Management of the Commissioners of Excise, and for preventing Frauds therein; for the more pundual and ready Payment of the Allowances to be made to Brewers out of the additional Duties imposed on Malt; and for rectifying a Mistake in an Act made in this present Session of Parliament, with respect to the exempting of Candles from the additional Duty of five Pounds per Centum upon the Duties of Excise imposed by the said Act.

56. An Act for granting to his Majesty an additional Duty upon Almanacks printed on one Side of any one Sheet or Piece of Paper $ and for allowing a certain annual Sum out of the said Duty to each of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, in lieu of the Money heretofore piid to the said Universities, by the Company of Stationers of the City of London, for the Privilege of printing Almanacks.

57. An Act for granting to his Majesty a certain Sum of Money out of the Sinking Fund $ and for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one; and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

58. An Act for rendering more effectual so much of an Act, made in the tenth Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for appropriating a Fund established by an Act, made in the seventh Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for granting to^ his Majesty additional Duties on certain foreign Linens imported into this Kingdom; and for