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The TITLES of the STATUTES. PUBLICK ACTS.

Anno 11 Georgii I.

1. AN Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a land-tax to be raised in Great Britain for the Service of the Year 1723.

2. An Act for indemnifying the Matters in Chancery, upon their discovering what Consideration, Price or Gratuity they paid or agreed to pay for the Purchase of, or for their Admission to, their respective Offices.

3. An Act to enable the Pier wardens of the Town of Margot* in the County of Kent, more effectually to recover the ancient and accustomary Droits, for the Support and Maintenance of the said Pier.

4. An Act for preventing the Inconveniences arising for want of Elections of Mayors, or other Chief Magistrates of Boroughs or Corporations being made upon the Days appointed by Charter or Usage for that Purpose, and directing in what Manner such Elections shall be afterwards made.

5. An Act for enlarging the Term granted by an Act made in the tenth Year of her late Majesty's Reign, for amending and maintaining the Roads between north fleet, Gravesend and Rochester in the County of Kent; and for explaining the same Act, and for appropriating Part of the Money arising thereby towards repairing the Road between the Town of Chatham and Bongbton under the Blean in the said County of Kent.

6. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.

7. An Act for rating such unrated Goods and Merchandizes as are usually imported into this Kingdom, and pay Duty ad Valorem, upon the Oath of the Importer; and for ascertaining the Value of all Goods and Merchandizes not inserted in the former or present Book of Rates; and for repealing certain Duties upon Drugs and Rags; and for continuing the Duty upon Apples; and for ascertaining the Method of admeasuring Pictures imported.

8. An Act for continuing the Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, in that Part of Great Britain called England; and for granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, for the Service of the Year 1723, and for transferring the Deficiency of a late Malt Act to this Act; and for explaining a late Act in Relation to Stamp duties on Newspapers; for appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament; and fordi posing certain Overplus Money to proper Objects of Charity; and for making forth Duplicates of Exchequer bills, Lottery tickets, and Orders, lost, burnt, or other wise destroyed; for giving further Time to Clerks and Apprentices, to pay Duties omitted to be paid for their indentures and Contrasts.

9. An Act for continuing the several Annuities of eighty eight thousand seven hundred fifty-one Pounds seven Shillings and ten Pence halfpenny, and one hundred thousand Pounds to the Bank of England until Midsummer 1727, and from thence, for reducing the same to seventy one thousand and one Pounds two Shillings and threepence three Earthings, and eighty thousand Pounds, redeemable by Parliament; and for preventing the uttering of forged, counterfeited, or erased Bank bills or Notes.

10. An Act to enable the Justices of the Peace for the East riding of the County of York, to take down the County bridge called Stanford bridge, and to build a Stone Bridge at a more convenient Place over the River dar wsnt. in the feud Riding infleal thereof.

11. An Act for repairing the Roads therein mentioned,

the Parish of Enfield in the County of Middlesex to the Town of Hertford, and to the great Bridge in Ware, in the County of Hertford.

12. An Act for incorporating the Executor of the last Will and Testatnerit of Thomas Guy, late of the City of London Esq; deceased, and others, in order to the better Management and Disposition of the Charities given by his said last Will.

13. An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Sherbrook hill near Buxton, and Chapel in the Frith in the County of Derby, to Manchester in the County of Lancaster.

14. An Act for repairing Part of the Road from London to Cambridge, beginning at the End of the Parish of soul mire in the said County, next to Barley in the County of Hertford, and ending at the Pavement in Trumpington sirect in the Town of Cambridge.

15. An Act for enlarging the Term granted by an Act made in the eighth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for repairing and amending the Highways leading from Seven Oaks to Woods gate and Tunbridge wells in the County of Kent; and for explaining and making more effectual the same Act; and for amending (out of the Tolls and Duties arising by the said Act, and this present Act) the Highways leading from Woods gate afcreiliid, to Kippings cross in the Parish of Brenchly in the said County of Kent.

16. An Act for rebuilding the Pier and Harbour of Parton in the County of Cumberland.

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17. An Act for redeeming the Annuities of twenty-five thousand Pounds per Annum, charged on the Civil List Revenues, by an Act of the seventh Year of his Majesty's Reign; and for discharging the Debts and Arrears due from his Majesty to his Servants, Tradesmen, and others.

18. An Act for regulating Elections within the City of London, and for preserving the Peace, good Order and Government of the said. City.

19. An Act for making more effectual an Act passed in the Parliament held in the twelfth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for making the River Nine or Nen, running from Northampton to Peterborough, navigable.

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20. An Act for repairing and amending the Road from Biggleswade in the County of Bedford to Bugden, and through Alconberry to the Top of Alconberry hill, br Cross Post leading into Sautery lane on the York and Edinburgh Road, and from the said Town of Bugden to the Town of Huntingdon, and from cross piall in Eaton Sokon in the said County of Bedford to Great Stoughton Common in the said County of Huntingdon.

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21. An Act for the Relief of insolvent Debtors.

22. An Act to prevent Violences and Outrages being committed by any Persons, under Pretence of sheltering themselves from Debt, or any Process of Law, within the Hamlet of Wapping Stepney, or elsewhere, within the Weekly Bills of Mortality.

23. An Act for making more effectual an Act passed in the fifth Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for preventing the Mischiefs which may happen by keeping too great Quantities of Gunpowder in or near the Cities of London and Westminster, or the Suburbs thereof.

24. An Act for the better regulating the Manufacture of Cloth in the West riding of the County of York.

25. An Act for enlarging the Term granted by an Act passed in the sixth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for repairing the Highways from Old Stratford in the County of Northampton, to Dunchurch in the County of Warwick, and for making the same more effectual.

26. An