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The TITLES of the STATUTES. brances affecting the same, and for making a Partition of such Estates, or so much thereof as shall not be sold, for the Purposes aforesaid.

44. An Act to dissolve the Marriage of Samuel Low, Esquire, with Elizabeth Rogers his now Wife, and to enable him to marry again, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

45. An Act to enable the Commissioners for executing the Office of Treasurer of his Majesty's Exchequer, or the Lord High Treasurer for the time being, to compound with John Philpot and John Hutchinson, and their Sureties, a Debt due to the Crown for Customs for Tobacco.

46. An Act for dividing and inclosing the Common called Felton Common, in the Parish of Felton, in the County of Northumberland.

47. An Act for dividing and inclosing the Common Fields, Common Pastures, Common Meadows, Common Grounds, and Waste Ground, in the Manor and Parish of Hilmorton, in the County of Warwick.

PUBLICK ACTS.

Anno 27 Georgii II.

1. AN Act to repeal an Act of the twenty sixth Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act to permit Persons professing the Jewish Religion to be naturalised by Parliament; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

2. An Act for continuing and granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four.

3. An Act for the better securing to Constables, and others, the Expenses of conveying Offenders to Gaol; and for allowing the Charges of poor Persons bound to give Evidence against Felons.

4. 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 one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four.

5. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.

6. An Act to repeal a Proviso in an Act made in the twentieth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for the better adjusting and more easy Recovery of the Wages of certain Servants, and for the better Regulation of such Servants, and of certain Apprentices, which provides that the said Act shall not extend to the Stannaries in Devon and Cornwall.

7. An Act for the more effectual preventing of Frauds and Abuses committed by Persons employed in the Manufacture of Clocks and Watches.

8. An Act for improving and enlarging the Harbour of Leith, and to impower the Trustees therein mentioned to purchase Lands for that Purpose; for erecting Docks and and other Conveniences on the Sides thereof.

9. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion of Officers and Soldiers in the Service of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies; and for the Punishment of Offences committed in the East Indies, or at the Island of Saint Helena.

10. An Act for granting to his Majesty a certain Sum of Money therein mentioned, out of the Sinking Fund; and applying certain Surplus Moneys remaining in the Exchequer for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-four; and for the further Disposition of the said Sinking Fund, by paying the reout the Remainder of the Sum advanced on the Credit of the Duty on Sweets, and the Interest thereof; and for carrying the said Duty to the said Fund; and for the further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

11. An Act to continue the Duties for Encouragement of the Coinage of Money; and for removing Doubts concerning the Continuance of the Duty of twenty Shillings for every Tonne of Brandy Wines and Strong Waters imported.

12. An Act for improving and preferring the Navigation from Salter's Load Sluice in the County of Norfolk, to Starndground Sluice in the County of Huntingdon; and from Flood's Ferry in the Isle of Ely in the County of Cambridge, to Ramsey High Load in the said County of Huntingdon; and also the Navigation from Old Bedford Sluice in the said County of Norfolk, to the River Nene in the Parish of Ramsey, in the said County of Huntingdon.

13. An Act to indemnify Persons who have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Promotions within the Time limited by Law; and for allowing further Time for that Purpose.

14. An Act to continue several Laws relating to the distemper now raging among the Horned Cattle in this Kingdom.

15. An Act to explain and amend an Act made in the ninth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the First, intituled, An Act for the more effectual punishing wicked and evil disposed Persons going armed and disguised, and doing Injuries and Violences to the Persons and Properties of his Majesty's Subjects; and for the speedy bringing the Offenders to justice.

16. An Act for making perpetual several Laws for Punishment of Persons destroying Turnpikes, Locks, or other Works erected by Authority of Parliament; and that all Acts made for erecting Courts of Conscience, shall be deemed Public Acts; and to impower a certain Number of the Trustees of the British Museum to do certain Acts; and for confirming the Table of Fees to be taken by the Clerks to the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex; and for giving further Time for the Payment of Duties omitted to be paid for the Indentures or Contracts of Clerks and Apprentices; and for filing Affidavits of the Execution of Contracts of Clerks to attornies and Solicitors; and for preventing Persons driving certain Carriages from riding upon such Carriages.

17. An Act for revesting in the Crown the Power of appointing the Marshal of the Marshalsea of the Court of King's Bench; and for the better regulation of that Office, and of the inferior Offices thereto belonging; and for rebuilding the King's Bench Prison.

18. An Act to continue several Laws for prohibiting the Importation of Books reprinted Abroad, and first composed or written, and printed in Great Britain; for the free Importation of Cochineal or Indico, and relating to Rice, Frauds in the Customs, the clandestine Running of Goods, and to Copper Ore; and for the better Encouragement of the making of Sail Cloth in Great Britain; and to authorise the Payment of the Bounty to Alexander Brown and others, upon a Ship fitted out for the Whale Fishery, and lost in the Greenland Seas; and for the more effectual Payment of the Bounties upon British made Sail Cloth to Robert Donald and others.

19. An Act for discharging the Corporation of the Governor, Bailiffs and Commonalty, of the Company of Conservators of the Great Level of the Fens, commonly called Bedford Level, from a Debt due to the Duke of Bedford and Earl of Lincoln, and for enabling the Proprietors of Lands in the North Level, Part of the said Great Level, to raise Money to discharge the Proposition of the said North Level, in the Debts of the said Corporation; and for ascertaining and appropriating the Taxes to be laid on the said North Level; and far the more effectual draining and preferring the said North Level, and diverse Lands adjoining thereto in the Manor of Crowland.

20. An Act for the more easy and effectual proceeding upon Distresses to be made by Warrants of Justices of the Peace.