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viii The TITLES of the STATUTES, tainder of treason, after the death of the pretender and his sons. Page 183

94. An Act to ascertain the salary of the master and worker of his Majesty's mint. Ibid.

95. An Act to permit goods the produce of any foreign colony in America, imported directly from thence in any ship or vessel belonging to the subjects of any country or place in amity with his Majesty, to be entered and landed without payment of the duty granted by an act of the last session of parliament, for the better protection of the trade of this kingdom. 184

96. An Act to enable Matthew Boulton, engineer, to export the machinery necessary for erecting a mint in the dominions of his imperial Majesty, the emperor of all the Russias. 185

97. 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, from the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. Ibid.

98. An Act to allow the importation of Spanish wool, in ships belonging to countries in amity with his Majesty. Ibid.

99. An Act to encourage the trade into the Levant Seas, by providing a more convenient mode of performing quarantine, and for reducing the duty granted by an act of the last session, on goods the manufacture of Great Britain, exported to any place within the streights of Gibraltar. 186

100. An Act to revive and continue, until the end of the next session of parliament, an act, made in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of his present Majesty, to continue and amend an act, made in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An act for the more effectual encouragement of the British fisheries; and to amend an act, made in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for extending the fisheries, and improving the sea coast of this kingdom. 187

101. An Act to continue several laws relating to the further support and encouragement of the fisheries carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Streights, until the twenty-fifth day of December one thousand eight hundred, and to the discontinuing the duties payable on the importation of tallow, hog's lard, and grease until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and six. 188

102. An Act to revive and continue, until the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and one, the bounties granted by an act, made in the twenty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for encouraging the fisheries carried on at Newfoundland, and parts adjacent, from Great Britain and Ireland, and the British dominions in Europe. Ibid.

103. An Act for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the militia in time of peace. 189

104. An Act to amend an act, made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled An act to enable his Majesty to grant commissions to a certain number of foreign protestants, who have served abroad as officers or engineers, to act and rank as officers or engineers in America only, under certain restrictions and qualifications. 189

105. An Act to continue and amend so much of an act, made in the thirty-third year of the reign of his present Majesty, as permits sir William Bishop, George Bishop, and Argles Bishop, to carry on the manufacture of Maidstone Geneva. Ibid.

106. An Act for the reduction of the militia forces, at the time and in the manner therein limited for enabling his Majesty more effectually to increase his regular forces, for the vigorous prosecution of the war; and for amending the laws relating to the militia. Page 189

107. An Act for granting to his Majesty certain stamp duties on bills of exchange and promissory notes for small sums of money. 198

108. An Act to amend and render more effectual several acts for the redemption and purchase of the land tax. 204

109. An Act for better recruiting the forces of the East India company. 208

110. An Act for the augmentation of the salaries of the judges of the courts in Westminster Hall, and also of the lords of session, lords of of justiciary, and barons of exchequer, in Scotland; and for enabling his Majesty to grant annuities to persons in certain offices in the said courts of Westminster Hall, on their resignation of their respective offices. 212

111. An Act to permit, until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and two, the importation of certain naval stores from Hamburgh, and other ports of Germany. 215

112. An Act to enable his Majesty, by order in council, to permit, until six weeks after the commencement of the next session of parliament, such goods as shall be specified in such order to be imported into this kingdom, in neutral ships. 216

113. An Act to enable such persons as his Majesty may be pleased to appoint to the office of chief justice, or of one of the justices of either bench, or of chief baron, or one of the barons of the exchequer, to take upon themselves the degree of a serjeant at law in vacation. Ibid.

114. An Act for granting to his Majesty a certain sum of money out of the consolidated fund, for applying certain sums of money therein mentioned, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament. Ibid.

PUBLIC LOCAL AND PERSONAL ACTS.

Anno Regni 39 Georgii III.

i. AN Act to enable Thomas Coutts Esquire, Banker, to make a Communication between his Buildings on the opposite Sides of William-Street, in the Parish of Saint Martin in the Fields, within the City and Liberty of Westminster, by a covered Passage to be built over the said Street. Page 218.

ii. An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act passed in the twenty-seventh Year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for rebuilding the Pier of Margate in the Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent; and for other Purposes mentioned in the said Act. Ibid.

iii. An Act for making and maintaining the Road from or near Whiteburn in the County of Berwick, to the Town of Kelso in the County of Roxburgh, to continue for twenty-one Years, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament. Ibid.

iv. An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor of the Parish of Saint Bridget, otherwise Saint Bride, Fleet-Street, in the City of London. Ibid.

v. An Act for explaining, amending, and rendering more effectual, several Acts, passed in the ninth, fifteenth, twenty-sixth, and thirty-fourth Years of the Reign of His present Majesty, for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from the Coventry Canal Navigation to the City of Oxford. Ibid. vi. An