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The TITLES of the STATUTES. 12. An Act to indemnify such Persons as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments; and to indemnify Justices of the Peace, 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, whole Admissions have been omitted to be stumped according to Law, or having been stamped, have been lost or mislaid, and for allowing them Time to provide Admissions duly stamped; to give further Time to such Persons as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors; and for indemnifying Deputy Lieutenants and Officers of the Militia, who have neglected to transmit Descriptions of their Qualifications to the Clerks of the Peace within the Time limited by Law; and for giving further time for that Purpose.

13. An Act for appointing Commissioners to put in Execution an Act of this Session of Parliament, (intituled, 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 ninety), together with those named in two former Acts for appointing Commissioners of the Land Tax.

14. An Act for continuing the Encouragement and Reward of Persons making certain Discoveries for finding the Longitude at Sea, or making other useful Discoveries and Improvements in Navigation, and for making Experiments relating thereto; and for adding a Commissioner to execute the several Acts for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea.

15. An Act for raising a certain Sum of Money, by Loans or Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety.

16. An Act for raising a further Sum of Money, by Loans or Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety.

17. An Act for altering the Time appointed for holding the Summer Session in the Court of Session in Scotland; and for altering Whitsuntide and Lammas Terms in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.

18. An Act to continue the several Laws therein mentioned, relating to encouraging the Manufacture of Leather by lowering the Duty payable upon the Importation of Oak Bark, when the Price of such Bark shall exceed a certain Rate; to the prohibiting the Exportation of Tools and Utensils made use of in the Iron and Steel Manufactures of this Kingdom, and to prevent the seducing of Artificers and Workmen, employed in those Manufactures, to go into Parts beyond the Seas; and to the ascertaining the Strength of Spirits by Clarke's Hydrometer.

19. An Act for allowing further Time for inrollment of Deeds and Wills made by Papists, and for Relief of Protestant Purchasers.

20. An Act for rebuilding the Parish Church and Tower of Saint Thomas, within the City of Bristol.

21. An Act for better supplying the City of Norwich, and the Parts adjacent, with Water.

22. An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, within the Hundreds of Colneis and Carlford, in the County of Suffolk.

23. An Act to continue, for a limited Time, an Act made in the twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act to enable the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of the Treasury for the Time being, to let to Farm the Duties granted by an Act, made in the twenty-fifth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, on Horses let to Hire for travelling Post, and by Time, to such Persons as should be willing to contract for the same.

24. An Act for enabling his Majesty to raise the Sum of one Million, for the Uses and Purposes therein mentioned.

25. An Act for paving and otherwise improving the Town of Honiton in the County of Devon.

26. An Act to exempt Goods and Chattels imported from the Settlement of Tucatan in South America, and sold by Auction in Great Britain, from the Duty imposed on such Sales, and for allowing a Drawback of the Duties on Goods exported to Tucatan.

27. An Act for encouraging new Settlers in his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America.

28. An Act for permitting the Importation of Cashew Gum, from his Majesty's West India Islands, upon Payment of the like Duty as is paid upon the Importation of Gum Arabic, or Gum Senega.

29. An Act for amending an Act passed in the twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, in the Ports of Kingston. Savannah la Mar, Montego Bay, and Santa Lucea in the Island of Jamaica, in the Port of Saint George in the Island of Grenada, in the Port of Roseau in the Island of Dominica, and in the Port of Nassau in the Island of New Providence, one of the Bahama Islands, under certain Regulations and Restrictions; and for regulating the Duties on the Importation of Goods and Commodities the Growth and Production of the Countries bordering on the Province of Quebec.

30. An Act for granting to his Majesty a certain Sum of Money, to be raised by a Lottery.

31. An Act to alter so much of an Act, made in the twelfth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the better preventing Frauds and Abuses in Gold and Silver Wares; and also so much of another Act, made in the twenty-fourth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for granting to his Majesty certain Duties on all Gold and Silver Plate imported, and also certain Duties on all Gold and Silver Wrought Plate made in Great Britain, as relates to the marking of Silver Wares.

32. An Act for granting to his Majesty a certain Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund; for applying certain Monies therein mentioned for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and ninety; and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament.

33. An Act to amend and continue, for a limited Time, several Acts of Parliament for regulating the shipping and carrying Slaves in British Vessels from the Coast of Africa.

34. An Act for giving Relief to such Persons as have suffered in their Rights and Properties, during the late unhappy Dissensions in America, in consequence of their Loyalty to his Majesty, and Attachment to the British Government; for making Compensation to Persons who furnished Provisions, or other necessary Articles, to the Army or Navy in America during the War, or whose Property was used, seized, or destroyed for the carrying on the public Service there; and also for making Compensation to such Persons as have suffered in their Properties, in consequence of the Cession of the Province of East Florida to the King of Spain.

35. An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the twentieth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, touching the Election for Knights of the Shire to serve in Parliament for that Part of Great Britain called England.

36. An Act to alter, explain, and amend an Act, made in the twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for limiting the Number of Persons to be carried on the Outside of Stage Coaches, or other Carriages, and for regulating the Conduct of the Drivers and Guards thereof. 37. An