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(Public,)	39 GEO. III. vii 66. An Act for placing the salaries of the sheriff deputes and substitutes of Scotland, upon the Scots civil list establishment. 137

67. An Act to enable such person as his Majesty shall please to appoint to the vacant office of a baron of the exchequer, to take upon himself the degree of a serjeant at law. Ibid.

68. An Act for enabling his Majesty to raise the sum of three millions for the uses and purposes therein-mentioned. 138

69. An Act for raising the sum of three millions five hundred thousand pounds by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. Ibid.

70. An Act for raising the sum of three millions, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. Ibid.

71. An Act to enable the lords commissioners of his Majesty's treasury to issue exchequer bills to a limited amount, on the credit of such monies as shall arise by virtue of an act of this session, for granting certain duties on income. Ibid.

72. An Act to amend an act made in the present session of parliament, intituled An act to repeal the duties imposed by an act made in the last session of parliament, for granting an aid and contribution for the prosecution of the war; and to make more effectual provision for the like purpose, by granting certain duties upon income, in lieu of the said duties, so far as relates to the assessments made upon trustees, agents, receivers, and guardians. Ibid.

73. An Act for exempting certain specifick legacies which shall be given to bodies corporate, or other publick bodies, from the payment of duty; and also the legacy of books and other articles given by the will of the late reverend Clayton Mordaunt Cracherode to the trustees of the British museum. 139

74. An Act for further continuing until the first day of February one thousand eight hundred and three, 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. Ibid.

75. An Act for reviving and making perpetual an act, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An act to prohibit the importation of light silver coin of this realm from foreign countries into Great Britain or Ireland; and to restrain the tender thereof beyond a certain sum. 140

76. An Act for the more secure conveyance of ship letters, and for granting to his Majesty certain rates of portage thereon. Ibid.

77. An Act for repealing the duties on salt made in Scotland, and on salt imported from Scotland into England and Wales, and granting other duties in lieu thereof. 141

78. An Act to continue, until the tenth day of November one thousand eight hundred, and amend an act passed in the present session of parliament, for continuing an act of the last session of parliament, for granting to ins Majesty additional duties on distilleries, in the several parts of the highlands of Scotland, for a limited time; and for regulating the duties on distilleries in the respective districts in Scotland; and for granting to his Majesty certain additional duties on spirits distilled for consumption, and a duty on unmalted grain used in distillation in Scotland. Page 142

79. An Act for the more effectual suppression of societies established for seditious and treasonable purposes; and for better preventing treasonable and seditious practices. 146

80. An Act for better regulating the manner of carrying slaves, in British vessels, from the coast of Africa. 155

81. An Act to prevent unlawful combinations of workmen. 164

82. An Act to explain and amend an act passed in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An act for amending, and reducing into one act of parliament, two several acts, passed in the thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth years of the reign of his present Majesty, for the better ordering the militia of the city of London, and for further regulating the trained bands or militia of the said city. 168

83. An Act for transferring to the commissioners for auditing the publick accounts, the duties now performed in the offices of the auditors of the land revenue; and for directing the mode of attesting the accounts of the paymaster general of his Majesty's forces. 172

84. An Act to enable the lords commissioners of the treasury to contract with the most noble Charles duke of Richmond, for the absolute purchase of the property of the said duke, and all others interested, in a certain duty of twelve-pence per chaldron on coals shipped in the river Tyne, to be consumed in England, and to grant a compensation for the same, by way of annuity, payable out of the consolidated fund. 174

85. An Act to protect masters against embezzlements by their clerks or servants. 175

86. An Act for ascertaining the rate of duty to be paid for retail spirit licences; and for authorising the justices of the peace for any county to grant licences to sell ale, beer, or other liquors, by retail, in cities and places where a sufficient number of magistrates cannot be found qualified to grant such licences. Ibid.

87. An Act for enabling his Majesty to prohibit the exportation, and permit the importation, of corn, and for allowing the importation of other articles of provision, without payment of duty, to continue in force until six weeks from the commencement of the next session of parliament. 177

88. An Act for erecting the county of Edinburgh into a separate districts, for the purpose of regulating the importation and exportation of corn. 178

89. An Act for regulating the manner in which the united company of merchants of England trading to the East Indies, shall hire and take up ships for their regular service. 179

90. An Act to amend two acts, passed in the twenty-sixth and thirty-seventh years of the reign of his present Majesty, so far as the same relate to the militia of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey; and for applying certain monies remaining in the hands of the clerks to the deputy lieutenants of the county of Middlesex, and other persons, towards the completing of the said militia. 180

91. An Act for granting to his Majesty a certain sum of money, to be raised by lottery. 182

92. An Act for altering the period of making up the annual account of the duties on stamped vellum, parchment, and paper. Ibid.

93. An Act to repeal so much of an act passed in the seventh year of the reign of queen Anne, and also so much of an act passed in the seventeenth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, as puts an end to the forfeiture of inheritances upon At-tainder of treason, after the death of the pretender and his sons. Page 183 tainder