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The TITLES of the STATUTES. 37. An Act for making perpetual an Act made 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.

38. An Act for building a Bridge over the River South Esk, at or near the Town of Montrose, in the County of Forfar; and for making suitable Approaches thereto.

39. An Act to enable the Inhabitants of the Parish of Saint Bololph without Aldersgate in the City of London, to raise Money for paying and discharging the Debts that have been contracted in repairing their Parish Church, and building a new Workhouse.

40. An Act for amending the Laws of Excise relating to the Manufactory of Flint Glass.

41. An Act to exempt Whale Oil, and other Articles therein mentioned, and sold by Auction in Great Britain, from the Duty imposed on such Sales.

42. An Act to empower the High Court of Chancery to lay out a further Sum of the Suitors Money upon proper Securities, and for applying the Interest towards discharging the Expences of the Office of the Accountant General, and for building Offices for the Masters in Ordinary in Chancery, and a Publick Office for the Suitors of the said Court, and Offices for the Secretaries of Bankrupts and Lunaticks, and for building Repositories for securing the Title Deeds of the Suitors of the said Court, and the Records and Proceedings of the Commissioners of Bankrupts and Lunaticks.

43. An Act for regulating the Allowance of the Drawback, and Payment of the Bounty on the Exportation of Sugar; and for permitting the Importation of Sugar and Coffee into the Bahama and Bermuda Islands, in Foreign Ships,

44. An Act for extending the Provisions of an Act, made in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act to impower the Magistrates therein mentioned to settle and regulate the Wages of Persons employed in the Silk Manufacture within their respective Jurisdictions, to Manufactories of Silk mixed with other Materials; and for the more effectual Punishment of Buyers and Receivers of Silk purloined and embezzled by Persons employed in the Manufacture thereof.

45. An Act to explain and amend an Act, made in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act to amend and make more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly Persons, and to Houses of Correction.

46. An Act for establishing Courts of Judicature in the Island of Newfoundland, and the Islands adjacent.

47. An Act to explain and amend so much of an Act, made in the seventh Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, as relates to Hackney Coaches and Chairs.

48. An Act to impower the Justices of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, to continue a Session of the Peace, and of Oyer and Terminer, begun to beholden before the Essoign Day of Term, and Sitting of the King's Bench at Westminster, notwithstanding the happening of such Essoign Day, or the Sitting of the said Court of King’s Bench at Westminster, or elsewhere, in the said County of Middlesex.

49. An Act for allowing the Importation of Quercitron or Black Oak Bark, when the Price of Oak Bark shall be under the Price mentioned in an Act of the twelfth Year of his present Majesty, and for lowering the Duty payable on Red Mangrove Bark imported into this Kingdom.

50. An Act for the Relief of the Coast Trade of Great Britain; for exempting certain Coast Documents from Stamp Duties; for abolishing the Bond usually called The Isle of Man Bond; and for permitting Corn and Grain brought Coastwise to be transhipped into Lighters, for the Purpose of being carried through the Canal from the Forth to the Clyde.

51. An Act to exempt certain Letters passing between Merchants or other Persons carrying on Trade or Commerce in this Kingdom, containing Agreements with respect to Merchandize, Notes, or Bills of Exchange, from the Stamp Duty now imposed on written Agreements.

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

53. An Act for the more effectual Administration of the Office of a Justice of the Peace in such Parts of the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey as lie in and near the Metropolis, and for the more effectual Prevention of Felonies.

54. An Act for more effectually securing the Duties upon foreign printed, painted, or stained Paper, imported into Great Britain.

55. An Act to render more effectual an Act, made in the twenty-sixth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for vesting certain Sums in Commissioners, at the End of every Quarter of a Year, to be by them applied to the Reduction of the National Debt; and to direct the Application of an additional Sum to the Reduction of the said Debt, in case of future Loans.

56. An Act for preventing the counterfeiting of Certificates of the Characters of Servants.

57. An Act for the further Regulation of Parish Apprentices.

58. An Act for the Amendment of the Law in Proceedings upon Information in Nature of Quo Warranto.

59. An Act to amend so much of two Acts made in the twenty-sixth and twenty-ninth Years of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, as relates to the licensing of Alehouse Keepers and Victuallers; and for better regulating Alehouses, and the Manner of granting such Licences in future; and also of granting Licences to Persons selling Wines to be drank in their Houses.

60. An Act to remove Doubts respecting the Functions of Juries in Cases of Libel.

61. An Act to indemnify Persons, being Proprietors, Printers, and Editors of Newspapers and other Publications, from certain Penalties incurred under several Acts therein, mentioned, relative to Lotteries.

62. An Act for removing the Stand of Hackney Coaches out of New Bond Street and Old Bond Street, in the Parish of Saint George Hanover Square, in the Liberty of Westminster.

63. An Act for granting Relief to Pastors, Ministers, and Lay Persons of the Episcopal Communion in Scotland.

64. An Act for repairing, altering, and improving the Parish Church of Saint Bridget, otherwise Saint Bride, in the City of London; and for providing a Workhouse for the same Parish.

65. An Act to extend and render more effectual an Act, passed in the twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for enlarging and regulating the Trade into the Levant Seas.

66. An Act for providing an additional Burying Ground for the Use of the Parish of Saint Pancras, in the County of

Middlesex;