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The TITLES of the STATUTES. 38. An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from or nearly from a Place called The Saltisford, in the Parish of Saint Mary, in the Borough of Warwick unto or near to the Parish of Birmingham, in the County of Warwick, and to terminate at or near to a certain Navigable Canal in or near to the Town Of Birmingham, called the Digbeth Branch of the Birmingham and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Navigations.

39. An Act for the more easy raising Money upon the Hundred of Hemlingford, in the County of Warwick, for paying the Damages and Costs incurred on Account of the late Riots within the said Hundred, than is authorized to be done by the Laws now in being.

40. An Act to continue several Laws, relating to the landing Rum or Spirits of the British Sugar Plantations before Payment of the Duties of Excise; to the giving further Encouragement to the Importation of Naval Stores from the British Colonies in America; to the granting Liberty to carry Sugars of the Growth, Produce, or Manufacture of any of his Majesty's Sugar Colonies directly to foreign Parts, in Ships built in Great Britain and navigated according to Law; to the permitting the Exportation of Tobacco Pipe Clay from this Kingdom to the British Sugar Colonies or Plantations in the West Indies; to the granting a Bounty on certain Species of British) and Irish Linens exported, and taking off the Duties on the Importation of Foreign Raw Linen Yarns made of Flax; 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; to the ascertaining the Strength of Spirits by Clarke’s Hydrometer; and to revive and continue an Act, made in the twenty-third Year of his present Majesty's Reign, for the more effectual Encouragement of the Manufactures of Flax and Cotton in Great Britain.

41. An Act to enable Robert Claxton of Bristol, Merchant, to take the Oath prescribed and directed to be taken by an Act of the twenty-sixth Year of his present Majesty, for the further Encrease and Encouragement of Shipping and Navigation.

42. An Act for incorporating the Company of Free Fishers and Dredgers of Whitstable, in the County of Kent, and for the better ordering and Government of the Fishery.

43. An Act for enlarging the Powers of and rendering more effectual an Act, made in the twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for rebuilding the Parish Church of Paddington in the County of Middlesex, and for enlarging the Church Yard of the said Parish.

44. An Act for requiring a certain Form of Oath of Abjuration, and Declaration, from his Majesty's Subjects professing the Roman Catholick Religion, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland.

45. An Act for taking down and rebuilding the Tower of the Parish Church of Hanbury, in the County of Worcester, and for repairing the said Church, and rendering the same more commodious for the Parishioners.

46. An Act for vesting in his Majesty certain forfeited Estates in Ireland, subject to the Disposition of the Parliament of Ireland.

47. An Act for placing the Stock called East India Annuities under the Management of the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, and ingrafting the same on the three Pounds per Centum Reduced Annuities, in Redemption of a Debt of four millions two hundred thousand Pounds, owing by the Publick to the East India Company; and for enabling the said Company to raise a Sum of Money, by a further Increase of their Capital Stock, to be applied in Discharge of certain Debts of the said Company.

48. An Act to allow the Drawback of the Duties of Customs and Excise upon Wines consumed by Admirals, Captains, and other Commissioned Officers, on Board Ships of War in actual Service, and to allow such Ships to be supplied with Tobacco, Duty free.

49. An Act for further continuing and amending an Act made in the ninth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for further encouraging and regulating the Manufacture of British Sail Cloth, and for the more effectual securing the Duties now payable on Foreign Sail Cloth imported into this Kingdom.

50. An Act to amend an Act passed in the twenty-seventh Year of his present Majesty's Reign, for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods, Wares, and Merchandize, in Foreign Ships, into and from certain Ports and Places in the West Indies; and for amending so much of an Act, made in the thirty-second Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, as relates to permitting the Importation of Sugar into the Bahama and Bermuda Islands in Foreign Ships; and so much of two Acts made in the twenty-eighth and thirty-first Years of his present Majesty's Reign, as prohibits the Importation of Timber into any Island under the Dominion of his Majesty in the West Indies from any Foreign Colony or Plantation in the West Indies or South America; and so much of the said Act, made in the twenty-eighth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, as prohibits the Importation of Pitch, Tar, and Turpentine into Nova Scotia or New Brunswick from any Country belonging to the United States of America.

51. An Act for rendering more effectual an Act of the present Session of Parliament, intituled, 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.

52. An Act for continuing in the East India Company, for a further Term, the Possession of the British Territories in India, together with their exclusive Trade, under certain Limitations; for establishing further Regulations for the Government of the said Territories, and the better Administration of Justice within the same; for appropriating to certain Uses the Revenues and Profits of the said Company; and for making Provision for the good Order and Government of the Towns of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay.

53. An Act to continue and amend an Act passed in the twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for further regulating the Trade or Business of Pawnbrokers.

54. An Act for the Encouragement and Relief of Friendly Societies.

55. An Act to authorize Justices of the Peace to impose Fines upon Constables, Overseers, and other Peace or Parish Officers, for Neglect of Duty, and on Masters of Apprentices for ill Usage of such their Apprentices; and also to make Provision for the Execution of Warrants of Distress granted by Magistrates.

56. An Act to amend an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, 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; and for reducing the Bounty on refined Sugars, exported in any other than British Ships. 57. An