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 An Act for the Encouragement of the Whale Fishery in the Gulph and River of Saint Lawrence, and on the Coasts of his Majesty's Colonies in America. An Act for applying the Money granted in this Session of Parliament, for defraying the Charge of the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia of that Part of Great Britain called England, for one Year, beginning the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand seven hundred and sixty-four. An Act to indemnify such Persons as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments; and to indemnify Justices of the Peace, Deputy Lieutenants, and Officers of the Militia, or others, who have omitted to register or deliver in their Qualifications within the Time limited by Law, and for giving further Time for those Purposes; and to indemnify Members and Officers in Cities, Corporations and Borough Towns, whose Admissions have been omitted to been stamped according to the several Acts of Parliament now in Force for that Purpose, or, having been stamped, have been loft or mislaid, and for allowing them Time to provide Admissions duly stamped; and to prevent the Destruction of Trees and Underwoods growing in Forests and Chases. An Act to impower the High Court of Chancery to lay out, upon proper Securities, a further Sum of Money, not exceeding a Sum therein limited, out of the Common and General Cash in the Bank of England belonging to the Suitors of the said Court; and for applying the Interest arising therefrom, towards answering the Charges of the Office of the Accountant General of the said Court. An Act for preventing Inconveniencies arising in Cases of Merchants, and such other Persons as are within the Description of the Statutes relating to Bankrupts, being intitled to Privilege of Parliament, and becoming insolvent. An Act to prevent Paper Bills of Credit, hereafter to be issued in any of his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, from being declared to be a legal Tender in Payments of Money; and to prevent the legal Tender of such Bills as are now subsisting, from being prolonged beyond the Periods limited for calling in and sinking the same. An Act for making Compensation to the Proprietors of such Lands and Hereditaments as have been purchased upon the Sea Coasts in the Counties of Kent, Sussex and Southampton, on which Forts and Batteries have been erected for Defence of the said Coasts, in pursuance of an Act passed in the second Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, and for other Purposes therein mentioned. An Act to continue an Act made in the fifth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King the Second, intituled, An Act to prevent the committing of Frauds by Bankrupts; and for extending the Laws, relating to Hackney Coaches, to the Counties of Kent and Essex.</li> <li>An Act for the better establishing a Manufactory of Cambricks and Lawns, or Goods of the Kind usually known under those Denominations, now carrying on at Winchelsea, in the County of Sussex; and for improving, regulating and extending the Manufacture of Cambricks and Lawns, or Goods of the Kind usually known under those Denominations, in that Part of Great Britain called England,</li> <li>An Act for allowing further Time for Inrollments of Deeds and Wills made by Papists; and for Relief of Protestant Purchasers.</li> <li>An Act to explain, amend and render more effectual two several Acts of Parliament, made in the second and third Years of his present Majesty, for paving, cleansing and lighting the Squares, Streets and Lanes, within the City and Liberty of Westminster, and other Places therein mentioned, and for preventing Annoyances therein; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.</li> <li>An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of small Debts within the Borough and Soke of Doncaster in the County of York; and for lighting the Streets, Lanes, and other open Passages and Places, within the said Borough.<li> <li>An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of small Debts in the Town and Parish of Kirby in Kendal in the County of Westmorland.</li> <li>An Act for repairing and widening the Road from Shillingford, in the County of Oxford, through Wallingford and Pangborne, to Reading, in the County of Berks;. and for building a Bridge over the River Thames, at or near Shillingford Ferry.</li> <li>An Act for maintaining, regulating and employing: the Poor within the Parish of Saint John at Hackney, in the County of Middlesex; and for lighting the said Parish, and establishing a regular Nightly Watch therein.</li> <li>An Act for repairing and widening the Roads from Horsham, in the County of Sussex, through the Parishes of Shipley, West Grinsted, Ashurst, Steyning, Bramber and Breeding, in the said County.</li> <li>An Act to amend and render more effectual several Acts of Parliament, for repairing the Roads from Sherbrooke Hill, near Buxton and Chapel in the Frith, in the County of Derby, through the Town of Stockport, in the Count of Chester, to Manchester, in the County of Lancaster, and other Roads in the said Acts mentioned, and for turning and diverting the Roads from Whaley Bridge, to Chapel in the Frith, and to Sparrow Pit Gate, and from Whaley Bridge, to the Western End of Longside Common, in the County of Chester.</li> <li>An Act to continue an Act, passed in the tenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King the Second, for continuing an Act passed in the fifth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King  the First, intituled, An Act for laying a Duty of two Pennies Scots, or one sixth Part of a Penny Sterling, upon every Pint of Ale or Beer, that shall be vended or fold within the Town of Dunbar, for improving and preserving the Harbour, and repairing the Town House, and building a School, and other publick Buildings there; and for supplying the said Town with fresh Water.</li> <li>An Act for repairing and widening the Roads, from the End of Stanbridge Lane, near a Barn in the Parish of Romsey, to the Turnpike Road at Middle Wallop, and from the Turnpike Road between Stanbridge Lane aforesaid, and Great Bridge, to the Turnpike Road at Stockbridge, and from the Garden of Henry Hattat, at Awbridge, to the Garden Wall of Denys Rolle, Esquire, at East Tuderly, and from Lockerley Mill Stream, to East Dean Gate, and from the said Garden Wall to the Turnpike Road leading from Stockbridge aforesaid, in the County of Southampton, to Salisbury.</li> <li>An Act for repairing and widening several Roads; leading from Caliington, in the County of Cornwall.</li> <li >49.An</li></ol>