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The TITLES of the STATUTES. 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 to prevent Acts of Parliament from taking Effect from a Time prior to the passing thereof.

14. An Act to enable the Royal Exchange Assurance Companies, and their Successors, to grant, purchase, and sell Annuities upon or for Lives.

15. An Act to enable the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to purchase certain Houses and Ground contiguous to the Bank of England.

16. An Act for effectually carrying into Execution an Act of Parliament of the eighteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for making a Navigable Canal from the Town of Basingstoke, in the County of Southampton, to communicate with the River Wey, in the Parish of Chertsey, in the County of Surrey, and to the South-east Side of the Turnpike Road, in the Parish of Turgiss, in the said County of Southampton.

17. 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-three.

18. 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-three.

19. An Act for defraying the Charge of the Pay and Cloathing of the Militia, in that Part of Great Britain called England, for one Year, beginning the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three; and for making Provision for Adjutants who have served a certain Time in the Militia.

20. An Act for effectually carrying into Execution an Act of Parliament of the thirtieth Year of his present Majesty, for making and maintaining a Navigable Communication between Stowmarket and Ipswich, in the County of Suffolk.

21. An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Canal Navigation from Manchester to or near Ashton under Lyne, and Oldham, to extend the said Canal from a Place called Clayton Demesne,in the Township of Droylsden, in the Parish of Manchester aforesaid, to a Place in the Turnpike Road in Heaton Norris, leading between Manchester and Stockport, opposite to the House known by the Sign of The Three Boars Heads; and from or nearly from a Place called Taylors Barn, in the Township of Reddish, to Denton, at a Place called Beat Bank, adjoining the Turnpike Road leading between Stockport and Ashton under Lyne; and also from the intended Aqueduct Bridge, at or near a Place called Waterhouses, in the Parish of Ashton under Lyne aforesaid, to a Place called Stake Leach, at Hollinwood,in the Township of Oldham aforesaid.

22. An Act for granting to his Majesty the Sum of two hundred thousand Pounds, to be issued and paid to the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, to be by them placed to the Account of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt.

23. An Act for altering the Provisions of an Act passed in the twenty-second Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for repealing the Duties payable for Beer and Ale above six Shillings the Barrel, exclusive of the Duties of Excise, and not exceeding eleven Shillings the Barrel, exclusive of such Duties, and for other Purposes therein mentioned, so far as respects the Quality of Table Beer brewed by common Brewers.

24. An Act for separating the Chapels of Chorley and Rufford from the Parish of Croston, in the County of Lancaster, and for making them two distinct Parish Churches.

25. An Act for paving the Footpaths, within the Borough of Ludlow, in the County of Salop; and for lighting, watching, and otherwise improving, the said Borough.

26. An Act for the better Supply of Mariners and Seamen, to serve in his Majesty's Ships of War, and on Board Merchant Ships, and other trading Ships and Vessels, during the present War.

27. An Act more effectually. to prevent, during the present War between Great Britain and France, all traitorous Correspondence with, or Aid or Assistance being given for his Majesty's Enemies.

28. An Act for raising a certain Sum of Money, by way of Annuities, to be charged of the Consolidated Fund; and for making perpetual certain Duties of Excise on British Spirits, and certain Duties on the Amount of assessed Taxes.

29. An Act for enabling his Majesty to direct the Issue of Exchequer Bills, to a limited Amount, for the Purposes and in the Manner therein mentioned.

30. An Act for the better preventing Forgeries and Frauds in the Transfers of the several Funds transferable at the Bank of England.

31. An Act to enable the Common Council of the Town of Liverpool, in the County of Lancaster, on Behalf and Account of the Corporation of the said Town, to issue negotiable Notes for a limited Time, and to a limited Amount.

32. An Act for enabling his Majesty to raise the Sum of one million five hundred thousand Pounds for the Uses and Purposes therein mentioned; and for providing that the Governor and Company of the Bank of England shall not be subject to any Penalties, by reason of an Act made in the fifth Year of the Reign of King William and Queen Mary, on Account of their advancing Money for the Payment of Bills of Exchange accepted by, or by the Direction of the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, and made payable at the Bank of England.

33. An Act for repealing Part of an Act passed in the first Year of the Reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An Act for preventing Frauds in the Duties upon Salt, and for the better Payment of Debentures at the Custom House, which may relate to the refining and making of Salt at certain Works intended to be erected at Garston, in the County Palatine of Lancaster, instead of the present Salt Works at Liverpool.

34. An Act for the Relief of the Captors of Prizes, with respect to the bringing and landing certain Prize Goods in this Kingdom.

35. An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the twenty-second Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for the better Relief and Employ aunt of the Poor.

36. An Act to establish certain Regulations respecting Officers serving in several Corps of Fencible Men, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland, and in certain other Corps which may be directed to be raised in Great Britain.

37. An Act to amend an Act, made in the thirty-first Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for the due making of Bread, and to regulate the Price and Assize thereof and to punish Persons who shall adulterate Meal, Flour, or Bread, with respect to the Time within which certain Prosecutions directed by me said Act are to be brought. 38. An