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The TITLES of the STATUTES. 2. An Act for enabling her Majesty to settle a Revenue for supporting the Dignity of his Royal Highness Prince George Hereditary of Denmark, in case he shall survive her Majesty.

3. An Act for granting a supply to her Majesty by several Duties imposed upon Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry.

4. an Act for continuing the Duties upon Coals, Culm, and Cinders.

5. An Act for granting an Aid to her Majesty by Sale of several Annuities at the Exchequer, for carrying on the War against France and Spain.

6. An Act for the better preventing Escapes out of the Queen's Bench and Fleet Prisons.

7. An Act for explaining and making effectual a late Statute concerning the Haven and Piers of the Borough of Great Yarmouth, and for confirming the Rights and Privileges of the said Borough.

8. An Act for Explanation of a Clause in one Act made in the seventh Year of his late Majesty's Reign, relating to Borelaps, and to take off the additional Subsidy upon Irish Linen.

9. An Act for punishing of Accessaries to Felonies, and receivers of stolen Goods, and to prevent the wilful burning and destroying of Ships.

10. An Act for the better repairing and amending the Highways from the North End of Thornwood Common, to Woodford in the County of Essex.

11. An Act for making the River Chain alias Grant, in the County of Cambridge, more navigable, from Clayhithe Ferry, to the Queen's Mill, in the University and Town of Cambridge.

12. An Act for the finishing and adorning the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, London.

13. An Act for continuing former Acts for exporting Leather, and for Ease of Jurors, and for reviving and making more effectual an Act relating to Vagrants.

14. An Act for the encouraging the Consumption of malted Corn, and for the better preventing the running of French and Foreign Brandy.

15. An Act for granting to her Majesty several Subsidies for carrying on the War against France and Spain.

16. An Act for punishing Officers and Soldiers who shall mutiny or desert her Majesty's Service in England or Ireland, and for punishing false Musters, and for better Payment of Quarters in England.

17. An Act for enlarging the Time for taking the Oath of Abjuration; and also for recapacitating and indemnifying such Persons as have not taken the same by the Time limited, and shall take the same by a Time to be appointed; and for the further Security of her Majesty's person, and the Succession of the Crown in the Protestant Line; and for extinguishing the Hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and all other Pretenders, and their open and secret Abettors.

18. An Act for the more effectual preventing the Abuses and Frauds of Persons employed in the working up the Woollen, Linen, Fustian, Cotton, and Iron Manufactures of this Kingdom.

19. An Act for taking, examining, and stating the publick Accounts of the Kingdom.

20. An Act for reviving and continuing the late Acts for appointing Commissioners to take, examine, and determine the Debts due to the Army, and for Transport Service, and also an Account of the Prizes taken during the late War.

21. An Act for advancing the Sale of the forfeited Estates in Ireland, and for vesting such as remain unsold by the present Trustees, in her Majesty, her Heirs and successors, for such Uses as the same were before vested in the said Trustees; for the more effectual selling and settling the said Estates to Protestants; and for explaining several Acts relating to the Lord Bophin, and Sir Edmund Everard.

22. An Act for preventing Frauds in her Majesty's Duties upon stamped Vellum, Parchment, and Paper.

23. An Act for raising the Militia of this Kingdom for the Year one thousand seven hundred and three, notwithstanding the month's Pay formerly advanced be not repaid.

24. An Act to oblige Edward Whitaker, to account for such Sums of publick Money as have been received by him.

PRIVATE ACTS.

1. AN Act for rectifying a Mistake in a late Act, intituled, An Act to enable Sir Robert Marsham, Knight and Baronet, to dispose of Lands in Hertfordshire, and to settle other Lands of better Value in Kent, to the same Uses as the Lands in Hertfordshire are settled.

2. An Act for Sale of Part of the Estate late of William Peachy, Esq; deceased, for Payment of Legacies charged thereupon.

3. An Act for settling diverse Manors, Lands, and Hereditaments, the Estate of Henry Duke of Beaufort, according to Agreements made upon his Marriage, and for other Purposes in the said Act mentioned.

4. An Act to vest diverse Lands and Tenements of Sir Thomas Brograve, Bart, in the County of Hertford, in Trustees, to be sold, and to settle other Lands and Tenements in liu thereof.

5. An Act for giving further Time to John Lord Bishop of Chichester, and his successors, to make Leases of certain Houses and Ground in and near Chancery Lane, belonging to the Bishoprick of Chichester.

6. An Act to enable Sir Edward Williams to sell certain Manors and Lands in the Counties of Brecon and Radnorshire, for Payment of Debts.

7. An Act for the better collecting the Duties granted for making the Way out of Chancery Lane into Lincoln's Inn Fields, and for determining the said Duties when the Parties concerned are paid.

8. An Act to enable the surviving Trustees and Executors of the last Will and Testament of Thomas Fane, Esq; deceased, to pay an Annuity unto Mildmay Fane, Esq; for his Maintenance and Education, until he shall attain his Age of one and twenty Years.

9. An Act to enable Richard Lord Bulkeley Viscount Cashels in the Kingdom of Ireland, and Richard Bulkeley, Esq; his Son, to make a Settlement upon the Marriage of the said Richard Bulkeley.

10. An Act for confirming and establishing a Partition made by Sir Edmund Fowler, Knight, and Dame Anne his Wife, and Elizabeth Buggin, Widow, of certain Manors and Lands in the County of Kent, in the Year one thousand six hundred thirty-four.

11. An Act for the incorporating certain Persons, for the better providing for, and setting at Work the Poor in the City of Gloucester.

12. An Act to enable Andrew Hackett, Esq; to dispose of several Messuages and Lands in the Counties of Stafford and Warwick, and City of Litchfield, for making provision for his younger Children, upon settling another Estate in Stroxton in the County of Lincoln, of better Value, to the same Uses as the Messuages and Lands in the Counties of Stafford and Warwick, and City of Litchfield were settled.

13. An Act for making Provision for the younger Children of Jonathan Castleman of Coubertly in the County of

Gloucester,