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The TITLES of the STATUTES. Moiety of the Manor of Wells in the said County, in Trustees, to be sold for Payment of a Mortgage charged thereon, and for making a Provision for the Maintenance of Mary the Wife of William Sands, Esq; and her Children.

37. An act for making the Towns of Stretton, and Princethorpe, a separate Parish from Woolston, in the County of Warwick.

38. An Act for vesting Part of the Estate of Joseph Dawson, Esq; in Trustees, for Payment of Debts, and for a Provision for the Maintenance and Marriage of his Daughters.

39. An Act for Sale of Lands in Horsington in the County of Somerset, Part of the Estate of William Ridout an Infant, for Payment of Encumbrances charged thereon, and for preserving the Residue of the Estate for the Infant.

40. An Act for vesting certain Lands of Thomas Bigg and his Wife in Chislet, in the County of Kent, in Trustees, for Payment of Debts, and making Provision for their Children.

41. An Act for revesting in his Majesty the Honour of Tutbury, Forest of Needwood, several Manors, Parks, Lands, and Offices, and other Profits thereunto belonging, and for vacating certain Letters Patent therein mentioned.

PUBLIC ACTS.

Anno 8 W. 3.

1. AN Act for the importing and coining Guineas and Half Guineas.

2. An Act for the further remedying the ill State of the Coin of the Kingdom.

3. An Act to explain that Part of an Act passed the last Session of Parliament, for laying several Duties on Low wines, and Spirits of the first Extraction, and for preventing the Frauds and Abuses of Brewers, Distillers, other Persons chargeable with the Duties of Excise, which relates to the Payment of Tallies, and the interest thereof.

4. An Act to attaint Sir John Fenwick, Bart, of High Treason.

5. An Act to attaint such of the Persons concerned in the late horrid Conspiracy to assassinate his Majesty's Royal Person, who are fled from Justice, unless they render themselves to Justice, and for continuing several others of the said Conspirators in Custody.

6. An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty, as well by a Land Tax, as by several Subsidies and other Duties, payable for one Year.

Anno 8 & 9 W. 3.

7. An Act for granting to his Majesty several Duties upon Paper, Vellum, and Parchment, to encourage the bringing of Plate and hammered Money into the Mints to be coined.

8. An Act for encouraging the bringing in of Wrought Plate to be coined.

9. An Act to restore the Market at Blackwell Hall to the Clothiers, and for regulating the Factors there.

10. An Act to enable the Returns of Juries as formerly, until the first Day of November one thousand six hundred ninety seven.

11. An Act for the better preventing frivolous and vexatious Suits.

12. An Act for continuing several additional Impositions upon several Goods and Merchandises.

13. An Act for continuing several former Acts for punishing Officers and Soldiers, who shall mutiny or desert his Majesty's Service, and for punishing false Musters, and for Payment of Quarters, for one Year longer.

14. An Act for compleating the building and adorning the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London, and for repairing the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster.

15. An Act for repairing the Highway between Ryegate in the County of Surrey, and Crawley in the County of Sussex.

16. An Act for enlarging common Highways.

17. An Act for paving and regulating the haymarket in the Parishes of St. Martin in the Fields, and St. James, within the Liberty of Westminster.

18. An Act for Relief of Creditors, by making compositions with their Debtors, in Case two Thirds in Number and Value do agree.

19. An Act for repealing a Clause in a former Act relating to Party Guiles, and for the better preventing Frauds and Abuses of Brewers, and others, chargeable with the Duties of Excise.

20. An Act for making good the Deficiencies of several Funds therein mentioned, and for enlarging the Capital Stock of the Bank of England, and for raising the publick Credit.

21. An Act for laying a Duty upon Leather, for the Term of three Years, and making other Provision for answering the Deficiencies as well of the late Duties upon Coals and Culm, as for paying the Annuities upon the Lottery, and for Lives, charged on the Tunnage of Ships, and the Duties upon Salt.

22. An Act for granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Sweets, Cyder, and Perry, as well towards carrying on the War against France, as for the necessary Expense of his Majesty's Household, and other Occasions.

23. An Act to enforce the Act for the Increase and Encouragement of Seamen.

24. An Act for granting to his Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage upon Merchandises imported, for the Term of two Years and three Quarters, and an additional Land Tax for one Year, for carrying on the War against France.

25. An Act for licensing Hawkers and Pedlars, for a further Provision for Payment of the interest of the Transport Debt for the reducing of Ireland.

26. An Act for the better preventing the Counterfeiting the current Coin of this Kingdom.

27. An Act for the more effectual Relief of Creditors in Cases of Escapes, and for preventing Abuses in Prisons, and pretended priviledged Places.

28. An Act for the better Observation of the Course anciently used in the Receipt of Exchequer.

29. An Act for the Repair of the Piers of Bridlington, alias Burlington, in the East Riding of the County of York.

30. An Act for supplying some Defects in the Laws for the Relief of the Poor of this Kingdom.

31. An Act for the easier obtaining Partitions of Lands in Coparcenary, Joint Tenancy, and Tenancy in Common.

32. An Act to restrain the Number and ill Practice of Brokers and Stock Jobbers.

33. An Act to make perpetual and more effectual an Act, intituled, An Act to prevent Delays at the Quarter Sessions of the Peace.

34. An