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The TITLES of the STATUTES. in Trustees, to be sold for Payment of such Debts and Encumbrances, to which the same, or the said Infant, in respect thereof, is liable.

56. An Act for vesting the Estate of Elizabeth Flore, in the County of Bucks, in Trustees, to be sold, and the Monies arising thereby, to be applied for the Payment of Debts charged thereon.

57. An Act for Sale of the Manor of Estevening, and other Lands and Hereditaments in Swinshead, in the County of Lincoln, late the Estate of Christopher Fairfax, gent deceased, for Payment of his Debts, and Benefit of his Children.

58. An Act for vesting Part of the Real Estate of Ralph Baldwin, Gent, in Trustees, for a Provision for his younger Children.

59. An Act for settling and securing Part of the Estates of Robert Barry, Clerk, and Anne his Wife, for the Benefit of the said Anne and her Children, and Sale of other Part of the Estate of the said Robert Barry, for Payment of his Debts.

60. An Act for vesting the Sum of two thousand Pounds in Trustees, to be applied to and for the Payment of the Debts of John Holworthy, Gent, pursuant to an Agreement with his Creditors.

61. An Act for the Sale of an Advowson in Sussex, late the Estate of Michael Sorocold, Clerk, deceased, for Payment of his Debts, and making Provision for his Widow and Child.

62. An Act for Sale of the Estate of John Viccary, deceased, in Rockbear, in the County of Devon, for Payment of his Debts charged thereupon, and for Maintenance of his Widow and Children.

63. An Act to empower the Lord High Treasurer of England, or Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, to compound with Francis Clyes, as Surety for William Pennock, late of Exon, Merchant, in six several Bonds, for Duties on Tobacco, which the said William Pennock had at the Port of Falmouth, in December, one thousand seven hundred and one.

64. An Act to rectify a Mistake in, and explain an Act passed in the last Session, to empower the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury, to compound with Richard Cobb, Esq; as one of the Sureties for Thomas Cobb, Gent. Receiver General for the County of Southampton and Isle of Wight.

65. An Act to make the Ship l'Amazone, taken and condemned as a Prize, and sold in the Island of Barbadoes, Free.

66. An Act for naturalising Paul, Frances, and Katharine Kilsly.

67. An Act for naturalising of Vincent de Laymerie, and others.

PUBLIC ACTS.

Anno 5 Annae.

1. AN Act for granting an Aid to her Majesty, by a Land Tax, to be raised in the Year one thousand seven hundred and seven.

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

3. An Act for the settling of the Honours and Dignities of John Duke of Marlborough upon his Posterity, and annexing the Honour and Manor of Woodstock, and House of Blenheim, to go along with the said Honours.

4. An Act for settling upon John Duke of Marlborough and his Posterity, a Pension of five thousand Pounds per Annum, for the more honourable Support of their Dignities, in like Manner as his Honours and Dignities, and the Honour and Manor of Woodstock, and House of Blenheim, are already limited and settled.

5. An Act for securing the Church of England as by Law established.

6. An Act for repealing a Clause in an Act, intituled, An Act for the better apprehending, prosecuting, and puntshing Felons that commit Burglaries, House-breaking, or Robberies in Shops, Warehouses, Coach-houses, or Stables, or that steal Horses.

7. An Act for regulating and ascertaining the Duties to be paid by the Unfreemen Importers of Coals into the Port and Borough of Great Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk.

8. An Act for an Union of the two Kingdoms of England and Scotland.

9. An Act for rendering more effectual an Act passed in the first Year of her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for the better preventing Escapes out of the Queen's Bench and Fleet Prisons.

10. An Act for repairing the Highway between Hockliffe and Woborne, in the County of Bedford.

11. An Act for continuing the Acts formerly made for Repairing of the Highways in the County of Hertford.

12. An Act for the enlarging the Passage leading to New Palace Yard through the Gatehouse, Westminster.

13. An Act for continuing the Duties upon Houses, to secure a yearly Fund for circulating Exchequer Bills, whereby a Sum not exceeding fifteen hundred thousand Pounds is intended to be raised, for carrying on the War, and other her Majesty's Occasions.

14. An Act for the better Preservation of the Game.

15. An Act for the better Recruiting her Majesty's Land Forces and the Marines, for the Year one thousand seven hundred and seven.

16. An Act for continuing an Act made 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.

17. An Act to repeal all the Laws prohibiting the Importation of Foreign Lace made with Thread.

18. An Act for Inrolments of Bargains and Sales within the West Riding of the County of York, in the Register Office there lately provided; and for making the said Register more effectual.

19. An Act for continuing the Duties on Low Wines, and Spirits of the first Extraction, and the Duties payable by Hawkers, Pedlars, and Petty Chapmen, and Part of the Duties on stamp'd Vellum, Parchment, and Paper, and the late Duties on Sweets, and the one third Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage, and for settling and establishing a Fund thereby, and by the Application of certain Overplus Monies, and otherwise, 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 seven, and other Uses therein expressed.

20. An Act for the better Encouragement of the Royal Lustring Company.

21. An Act for repairing the Highway between Fornhill in the County of Bedford, and the Town of Stony-Stratford in the County of Buckingham.

22. An Act to explain and amend an Act of the last Session of Parliament for preventing Frauds frequently committed by Bankrupts. --- 23. An Act to subject the Estate of Thomas Brerewood to the Creditors of Thomas Pitkin, notwithstanding any Agree-

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