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The TITLES of the STATUTES. 52. An Act to naturalise Andrew Girardot, alias Devermenoux, Francis Buzelin, and others.

53. An Act to make some Alterations and Amendments in an Act of Parliament obtained the last Session by Sir Peter Tyrrill, and Thomas Tyrrill his Son, in order to enable them to sell several Lands in Hanslop, and Castlethrop, in the County of Bucks, which were settled upon the Marriage of the said Thomas Tyrrill and Dorothy his Wife, and to settle other Lands in lieu thereof.

54. An Act for Sale of Part of the Estate of Baptist May, Esq; deceased, for reimbursing Charles May, Esq; his Nephew, such Monies as he has expended for discharging the Debts, Legacies, and Funeral Expenses of the said Baptist May.

55. An Act for Sale of the Estate of Thomas Holdford, Esq; in Plumbly, and elsewhere, in the County of Chester, consisting chiefly in Reversions, to raise Money for Payment of his Debts, and purchasing an Estate in Possession, to be settled to the same Uses as the other Estate was settled.

56. An Act for confirming a Lease heretofore made, of certain Messuages and Lands in Epsom, by Sir Joseph Sheldon, and Sir James Edwards, to Humphry Bean, and agreed to be assigned to Sir Thomas Cooke, Knight, and for enabling a Lease of other Lands adjoining to the same, to be made to him.

57. An Act for vesting in Trustees the Estate late of Sir Thomas Worsopp, Knight, and John Worsopp, Esq; his Son, deceased, in Finsbury fields, or Moorfields, in the Parish of Shoreditch, in the County of Middlesex, to be sold for the Payment of Debts and Legacies, and the Overplus of the Money remaining, to be laid out for the purchasing of Messuages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of Inheritance in the Kingdom of Ireland, to be settled as in the Act is particularly mentioned.

58. An Act to empower the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury, to compound with Thomas Kenyon, Executor of Luke Lloyd, Esq; as he was one of the Sureties of Morgan Whitley, Esq; as he was Receiver General for the Counties of Chester and North Wales.

59. An Act for vesting the Estate of Joseph Grainge, and Elizabeth his Wife, in Trustees, to be sold, and to dispose of Part of the Money arising by such Sale for the Maintenance of the said Elizabeth, pursuant to their Marriage Settlement, and to apply the Residue to the Payment of the Debts of the said Joseph Grainge.

60. An Act to enable Trustees to sell such Part of the Estate of Richard Lister, Esq; and Frances Pate Lister, his Wife, sole Daughter and Heir of Sir Thomas Smith, Baronet, deceased, in the County of Chester, and City of Chester, as remains unsold, in order to raise Money for the Payment of the Debts of the said Sir Thomas Smith, and for Portions for younger Children of the said Frances Pate Lister; and for applying the Overplus in the Purchase of other Lands, to be settled to the same Uses as they are now settled; and likewise for confirming such Leases and Sales as have been made towards a Discharge of the said Debts.

61. An Act to empower the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury, to compound with Michael Wicks, Esq; late Receiver General of the Plantation Duties in the Port of London.

PUBLICK ACTS.

Anno 4 & 5 Annae.

1. AN Act for exhibiting a Bill in this present parliament for naturalising the most Excellent Princess Sophia, Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover, and the Issue of her Body.

2. An Act for granting an Aid to her Majesty by a Land Tax to be raised in the Year one thousand seven hundred and six.

3. An Act to repeal several Clauses in the Statute made in the third and fourth Years of her present Majesty's Reign, for securing the Kingdom of England from several Acts lately passed in the Parliament of Scotland.

4. An Act for the Naturalisation of the most Excellent Princess Sophia, Electress and Duchess Dowager of Hanover, and the Issue of her Body.

5. An Act for continuing the Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and six.

6. An Act for continuing an additional Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage, and certain Duties upon Coals, Culm, and Cinders, and additional Duties of Excise, and for settling and establishing a Fund thereby, and by other Ways and Means, for Payment of Annuities, to be sold for raising a further Supply to her Majesty, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and six, and other Uses therein mentioned.

7. An Act for making the Town of New Ross, in the County of Wexford in the Kingdom of Ireland, a Port for the exporting of Wool from Ireland into this Kingdom.

8. An Act for the better Security of her Majesty's Person and Government, and of the Succession to the Crown of England in the Protestant Line.

9. An Act for repairing the Highways between Barnhill and Hatton Heath, in the County of Chester.

10. An Act for the better recruiting her Majesty's Army and Marines.

11. An Act for continuing an Act made in the Session held in the third and fourth Years of her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and false Musters, and for the better Payment of the Army and Quarters.

12. An Act for laying further Duties on Low Wines, and for preventing the Damage to her Majesty's Revenue by Importation of foreign cut Whalebone, and for making some Provisions as to the Stamp Duties, and the Duties on Births, Burials, and Marriages, and the Salt Duties, and touching Million Lottery Tickets, and for enabling her Majesty to dispose the effects of William Kidd, a notorious Pirate, to the Use of Greenwich Hospital, and for appropriating the public Monies granted in this Session of Parliament.

13. An Act for the better ordering and governing the Watermen and Lightermen upon the River of Thames.

14. An Act for the better collecting Charity Money on Briefs, by Letters Patent, and preventing Abuses in relation to such Charities.

15. An Act for making the River Stower navigable, from the own of Maningtree in the County of Essex, to the Town of Sudbury in the County of Suffolk,

16. An