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The TITLES of the STATUTES. 57. An Act for the better Regulation of warehoused Tobacco, and for permitting certain Tobacco of the Spanish Dominions to be admitted to Entry on the Payment of the British Plantation Duty.

58. An Act to allow to Ships carrying on the Southern Whale Fishery to the North of the Equator, the same Premium as they are now entitled to it they do not pass the Equator.

59. An Act to continue certain Duties of Excise on Foreign Spirits imported into this Kingdom, for a limited Time; and also for continuing certain Laws of Excise therein mentioned.

60. An Act to enable the Post-master General to send the Mail to the Dominions of his Catholick Majesty, on Board of any Vessels authorised by his Catholick Majesty to carry the same.

61. An Act for the Regulation of Distilleries in Scotland, and the Exportation of British-made Spirits from England to Scotland, and from Scotland to England, for a limited Time.

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

63. An Act to permit Goods and Commodities of the Growth, Production, or Manufacture of Asia, Africa, or America, legally imported into Ireland, to be imported from thence into Great Britain.

64. An Act to explain and amend an Act passed in the seventh and eighth Years of King William the Third, intituled, An Act for the further regulating Elections of Members to serve in Parliament, and for the preventing irregular Proceedings of Sheriffs and other Officers in the electing and returning such Members, so far as relates to the Publication of Notices of the Time and Place of Election.

65. An Act to amend an Act, made in the thirty-first Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for regulating the Importation and Exportation of Corn, and the Payment of the Duty on Foreign Corn imported, and of the Bounty on British Corn exported.

66. An Act for the Encouragement of Seamen, and for the better and more effectually manning his Majesty's Navy.

67. An Act for better preventing Offences in obstructing, destroying, or damaging Ships or other Vessels, and in obstructing Seamen, Keelmen, Casters, and Ship Carpenters, from pursuing their lawful Occupations.

68. An Act for remedying Inconveniencies attending certain Proceedings in the Courts of Great Sessions in Wales, and for the County Palatine of Chester, in the Court of Common Pleas for the County Palatine of Lancaster, in the Court of Pleas for the County Palatine of Durham, and in the County Courts in Wales.

69. An Act for repealing the Duties on Coals, Culm, and Cinders, brought or carried Coastwise into Scotland; and for granting other Duties on Licences to sell certain distilled Spirituous Liquors, in lieu thereof.

70. An Act for repealing the Duties and Drawbacks on Figs, and for granting and allowing other Duties and Drawbacks in lieu thereof; for charging a Duty on the Importation, and allowing a Drawback on the Exportation, of Virginal Wire of Copper; for empowering the Commissioners of the Customs to authorize their Officers to make Allowance for Damages received by Goods during the Voyage; and for authorizing the Commissioners of the Customs and Excise, to sell Vessels, liable to be broken up, to private Persons, to be used as Privateers.

71. An Act for further continuing, 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.

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

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

74. An Act for rendering the Payment of Creditors more equal and expeditious in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland.

75. An Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual, an Act passed in the eleventh Year of his present Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for consolidating, extending, and rendering more effectual, the Powers granted by several Acts of Parliament,for making, enlarging, amending, and cleansing the Vaults, Drains, and Sewers, within the City of London, and Liberties thereof; and for paving, cleansing and lighting the Streets, Lanes, Squares, Yards, Courts, Alleys, Passages, and Places, and preventing and removing Obstructions and Annoyances within the same.

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

77. An Act for further settling and securing a certain Annuity on the Heirs Male of the Body of the late Lord Rodney, to whom the Barony of Rodney shall descend, in consideration of the eminent Services performed by the said late Lord Rodney to his Majesty and the Publick.

78. An Act to enable his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, to make Leases, Copies and Grants of Offices, Lands, and Hereditaments, Parcel of his said Royal Highness’s Duchy of Cornwall, or annexed to the same; and for the other Purposes therein mentioned.

79. An Act requiring and authorizing Charles Gilbert, Esquire, Treasurer of the Eastern Division, and the Reverend Francis Tutte, the legal Representative of Randolph Tutte deceased, late Treasurer of the Western Division of the County of Sussex to pay certain Sums of Money received by them the said Treasurers, or either of them, on Account of the not raising the Militia of the said County, into the publick Stocks of the said Divisions, to be applied as therein is directed; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

80. An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from the Oxford Canal Navigation, at Braunston, in the County of Northampton, to join the River Thames at or near Brentford, in the County of Middlesex, and also certain Collateral Cuts from the said intended Canal.

81. An Act to amend an Act made in the twenty-sixth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for allowing a Drawback of the Duties upon Coals used in smelting Copper and Lead Ores, and in Fire Engines, for draining Water out of the Copper and Lead Mines, within the Isle of Anglesey.

82. An Act to explain and amend an Act, passed in the eleventh Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for the better paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching Haydon Square, the New Square, Haydon Yard, Sheepy Yard, Church Street, Little Church Street, otherwise the Church Passage, Church Court, and Kenton Street, and the Pas- sages