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The TITLES of the STATUTES. 19. An Act for regulating, well ordering, governing, and improving the Oyster Fishery in the River Medway and Waters thereof, under the Authority of the Mayor and Citizens of the City of Rochester in the County of Kent.

20. An Act for the Relief of insolvent Debtors.

21. An Act for the Trial of Murders, in Cases where either the Stroke or Death only happens within that Part of Great Britain called England.

22. An Act for the Relief of Debtors, with respect to the Imprisonment of their Persons.

23. An Act for the better Regulation of Attorneys and Solicitors.

24. An Act for the more effectual preventing Bribery and Corruption in the Elections of Members to serve in Parliament.

25. An Act for the more effectual preventing, and further Punishment of Forgery, Perjury, and Subornation of Perjury; and to make it Felony to steal Bonds, Notes or other Securities, for Payment of Money.

26. An Act for making more effectual several Acts passed relating to Watermen, Wherrymen and Lightermen, rowing on the River Thames, and for better ordering and governing such Watermen, Wherrymen, and Lightermen.

27. An Act to enable his Majesty to be Regent of this Kingdom, during his Majesty's Absence, without taking the Oaths. 28. An Act to revive the Laws therein mentioned, relating to the Importation of Foreign Brandy, and other Waters and Spirits; for Importation of Cochineal; to continue several Acts for preventing Frauds in the Customs; Encouragement of the Silk Manufactures of this Kingdom; for making Copper Ore of the British Plantations an enumerated Commodity; for making perpetual an Act: therein mentioned, for suppressing of Piracy; for enabling Persons prosecuted upon the Capias, in relation to the running of Goods, to defend in Forma Pauperis; for more effectual debarring of unlawful Games; for licensing Retailers of Brandy, and other distilled Liquors, and for better Regulation of Licences for common Inns and Ale-houses.

29. An Act to empower his Majesty to visit the Collegiate Church of Manchester, during such time as the Wardenship of the said Church is or shall be held in commendam with the Bishopric of Chester.

30. An Act for making the Hamlet of Wapping Stepney, in the Parish of St. Dunstan Stebunheath, alias Stepney, in the County of Middlesex, a distinct parish, and for providing a Maintenance for the Minister of the new Church there.

31. An Act for indemnifying Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices or Employments, within the Time limited by Law, and for allowing further Time for that Purpose; for repealing so much of an Act of Parliament passed in the first Year of his late Majesty King George the First, as requires Persons to qualify themselves for Offices or Employments within three Months, and for limiting other Times for such Qualifications; as also for the Repeal of so much of an Act passed 30 Car. 2. as relates to the sworn Servants of the King's or Queen's Majesty.

32. An Act to empower his Majesty, his Heirs and successors, during the Life of Thomas Bambridge Esq; to grant the Office of Warden of the Prison of the Fleet, to such Person or Persons as his Majesty shall think fit; and to incapacitate the said Thomas Bambridge to enjoy the said Office, or any other whatsoever.

33. An Act for obviating any Doubts or Difficulties that may arise from an Act passed in the firs Year of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the thirteenth Year of his late majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for Sale of such of the forfeited Estates in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, as remain unsold, and are vested in the Crown; and for determining such Claims on the said Estates, as, having been duly entred, remain undetermined.

34. An Act for establishing an Agreement with seven of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, for the Surrender of their Title and Interest in that Province to his Majesty.

35. An Act for the better Preservation of his Majesty's Woods in America, and for the Encouragement of the Importation of Naval Stores from thence; and to encourage the Importation of Masts, Yards and Bowsprights, from that Part of Great Britain called Scotland.

36. An Act for the better Regulation and Government of Seamen in the Merchants Service.

PRIVATE ACTS.

Anno 2 Georgii II

1. AN Act to naturalise Peter Frere Brotherson.

2. An Act for exemplifying the several Wills and Codicils of James late Earl of Anglesey, and John late Earl of Anglesey, and for making the same Evidence in all Courts of Law and Equity in Great Britain and Ireland.

3. An Act to enable Thomas Scawen Esq; and others, to make Leases of several Manors and Lands in Cornwall, according to the Custom of that County, and of the several Manors in which the same do lie. 4. An Act for naturalising Peter Lapierre, John Stephen Benezet, Stephen Teissier, Godfrey Schreve, and others.

5. An Act for naturalising John Jacob Dillenius, Bridget Pollard, and John Elout.

6. An Act for naturalising James Passano.

7. An Act for Sale of two undivided fourth Parts of the Manor and Lands of and in Steane, in the County of Northampton, the Inheritance of the Right Honourable the Lady Mary Grey and Jemima Campbell, and for laying out the Money arising by such Sale in the Purchase of an entire Estate to be settled to the same Uses.

8. An Act for settling the Estates of John Earl of Grandison in the Kingdom of Ireland, and James Fitzgerald Villiers Esq; commonly called Lord Villiers, his Son and Heir Apparent, pursuant to an Agreement made before, and in Consideration of, the Marriage of the said Lord Villiers with Jane his Wife.

9. An Act for selling Part of the settled Estate (lying in the County of Lancaster) of Richard Lord Viscount Molineux in the Kingdom of Ireland, for raising Money to discharge his Father's Incumbrances thereon, and likewise for making Provision for his Brothers and Sisters, and for the Payment of his own Debts, and for settling other Lands as an Equivalent for the same.

10. An act to enable Henry Chaytor Gent, to limit a Jointure to a Wife, and to let Leases for twenty-one Years of his Estate at Croft in the County of York.

11. An Act to enable Robert Cotsworth Esq; to sell Part of an Estate held by Lease of the Bishop of Durham, for discharge of his Debts.

12. An Act for the more effectual putting in Execution an Act of Parliament made and passed in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An Act for the Sale of several Estates of Henry Grey Esq; in the County of Southampton, and for settling other Estates of equal Value in the Counties of Berks and Wilts to the same Uses.

13. An Act to vest several Messuages, Lands and Tenements, in the Parish of Stoke Canon, in the County of Devon, in Trustees, to be sold for the Payment of the Debts of Bamfyld Rodd Esq; deceased.

14. An