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vi The TITLES of the STATUTES, 41. An Act for raising an additional sum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. Page 104.

42. An Act to enable the commercial commissioners appointed to carry into execution certain acts for granting duties upon income, to extend the time limited by the said acts for receiving returns of income; and for explaining and amending the said acts. 105

43. An Act for enlarging the time limited by certain acts passed for the redemption of the land tax, for receiving contracts and making transfers of stock thereon, and for explaining and amending the said acts. 108

44. An Act for further continuing, until the first day of March one thousand eight hundred, an act, made in the last session of parliament, intituled An act to empower his Majesty to secure and detain such persons as his Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his person and government. 110

45. An Act for making perpetual so much of an act made in the nineteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, chapter seventy-four, videlicet, On the twenty-sixth day of November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, intituled An act to explain and amend the laws relating to transportation, imprisonment, and other punishment of certain offenders, as relates to the punishment of burning in the hand of certain persons convicted of felony within the benefit of clergy. 112

46. An Act for making perpetual so much of an act made in the nineteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, chapter seventy-four, videlicet, On the twenty-sixth day of November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, intituled An act to explain and amend the laws relating to the transportation, imprisonment, and other punishment of certain offenders, as relates to the lodgings of judges at county assizes. Ibid.

47. An Act to continue, until the fifth day of July next, an act, made in the present session of parliament, chapter twenty-four, videlicet, On the twenty-first day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, for continuing several acts, made in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh and in the thirty-eighth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for suspending the operation of certain acts, made in the fifteenth and seventeenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for restraining the negotiation of promissory notes and bills of exchange, under a limited sum, within that part of Great Britain called England. 113

48. An Act to continue, until the fifth day of July one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, an act passed in the present session of parliament, for continuing several acts for allowing the banks, and certain banking companies, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, to issue notes for sums under a certain amount. Ibid.

49. An Act to extend the bail to be given in cases of criminal information, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland. Ibid.

50. An Act for making perpetual an act, made in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An act for the further relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons; and to oblige debtors, who shall continue in execution in prison beyond a certain time, and for sums not exceeding what are mentioned in the act, to make discovery, and deliver, upon oath, their estates for their creditors benefit. 114

51. An Act for continuing, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and two, several laws relating to the transportation of felons and other offenders, and to the authorising the removal of offenders to temporary places of confinement in England and Scotland respectively. Page 114

52. An Act for continuing, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and two, so much of an act, made in the nineteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, chapter seventy-four, videlicet, On the twenty-sixth day of November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, intituled An act to explain and amend the laws relating to the transportation, imprisonment, and other punishment of certain offenders, as relates to penitentiary houses. Ibid.

53. An Act to continue, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and four, so much of an act, made in the twenty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in that part of Great Britain called Scotland. 115

54. An Act to indemnify all persons who may have incurred penalties or forfeitures under an act passed in the second year of the reign of the King James the First, intituled An act concerning tanners, curriers, shoemakers, and other artificers occupying the cutting of leather; and to repeal parts of the said act, relating to the buying of hides. Ibid.

55. An Act for encouraging the improvement of lands subject to the servitude of thirlage, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland. 116

56. An Act to explain and amend the laws relative to colliers in that part of Great Britain called Scotland. 119

57. An Act for indemnifying governors, lieutenant governors, and persons acting as such in the West India islands, who have permitted the importation and exportation of goods and commodities in foreign bottoms. 120

58. An Act to enable his Majesty to grant a certain annuity to sir James Marriott knight, late judge of the high court of admiralty, in consideration of his diligent and faithful services in the execution of that office. Ibid.

59. An Act for permitting certain goods, imported from the East Indies, to be warehoused; and for repealing the duties now payable thereon and granting other duties in lieu thereof. 121

60. An Act for raising the sum of fifteen millions five hundred thousand pounds by way of annuities. 127

61. An Act to repeal the duty granted by an act of the last session of parliament on raw linen yarn, the produce of the territories of the king of Prussia, and imported directly from thence into this kingdom; and for charging another duty in lieu thereof. Ibid.

62. An Act to amend an act made in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, and two acts made in the last session of parliament, for raising a militia force in that part of the kingdom of Great Britain called Scotland. 128

63. An Act for granting to his Majesty certain additional duties on sugar imported and exported, and on coffee exported; and for reducing the drawbacks now allowed on the exportation of sugar. 130

64. 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. 132

65. An Act for allowing, until the twenty-fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and five, a further bounty upon pilchards exported; and for amending an act made in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of His present