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Majesty to permit Goods to be imported into this Kingdom in neutral Ships; and to continue, until the thirtieth Day of September one thousand eight hundred, an Act of the last Session of Parliament, 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. Page 280 10. An Act to extend the Period, limited by an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for the Benefit of Preference to certain Bodies, Companies, and Persons, in contracting for the Redemption of Land Tax, until the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand eight hundred. Ibid.

11. An Act to amend so much of an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, for granting certain Duties upon Income, as relates to the Appropriation of the said Duties, and of the Duties upon Goods imported and exported, granted by an Act of the thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty. Ibid.

12. An Act to enable the Commissioners of the Customs to allow, until the first Day of April one thousand eight hundred, British Plantation Sugars to be warehoused; to revive so much of an Act, made in the thirty-second Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, as relates to the ascertaining the average Price of Sugar, and regulating the Allowance of Drawback on the Exportation thereof, and for allowing, until the fifth Day of May one thousand eight hundred, certain Drawbacks on Sugar exported. 281

13. An Act for allowing further Time for the Payment of Instalments on certain Sums of Money advanced by Way of Loan to several Persons connected with and trading to the Islands of Grenada and St. Vincent. 282

14. An Act for empowering his Majesty to shorten the Time for the Meeting of Parliament in Cases of Adjournment. 285

15. An Act for continuing, until the Expiration of six Weeks after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament, an Act, made in the thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for empowering his Majesty for a Time and to an Extent to be limited, to accept the Services of such Parts of his Militia Forces in this Kingdom as may voluntarily offer themselves to be employed in Ireland. 286

16. An Act for continuing, until the Expiration of six Weeks after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament, an Act, made in the thirty-seventh Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for the better Prevention and Punishment of Attempts to seduce Persons serving in his Majesty's Forces, by Sea or Land, from their Duty and Allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite them to Mutiny or Disobedience. Ibid.

17. An Act to continue, until the first Day of March one thousand eight hundred and three, an Act, made in the thirty-third Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for establishing Courts of Judicature in the Island of Newfoundland; and to continue, until the Expiration of forty Days after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament, several Laws relating to the Admission of certain Articles of Merchandize in neutral Ships, and the issuing of Orders in Council for, that Purpose; to the authorising his Majesty to make Regulations respecting the Trade to the Cape of Good Hope; and to the enabling his Majesty to permit Goods to be imported into this Kingdom in neutral Ships. Page 286

18. An Act to prohibit, until the Expiration of six Weeks after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament, any Person or Persons from selling any Bread which shall not have been baked a certain Time. 287

19. An Act to indemnify such Persons as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments; and to indemnify Justices of the Peace, or others, who have omitted to register or deliver in their Qualifications within the Time directed by Law, and for extending the Time limited for those Purposes, until the twenty-fifth Day of December one thousand eight hundred; to indemnify Members and Officers, in Cities, Corporations, and Borough Towns, whose Admissions have been omitted to be stamped according to Law, or having been stamped, have been lost or mislaid, and for allowing them, until the twenty-fifth Day of December one thousand eight hundred, to provide Admissions duly stamped; to permit such Persons as have omitted to make and file Affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the first Day of Michaelmas Term one thousand eight hundred; and for indemnifying Deputy Lieutenants and Officers of the Militia, who have neglected to transmit Descriptions of their Qualifications to the Clerks of the Peace within the Time directed by Law, and for extending the Time limited for that Purpose, until the first Day of September one thousand eight hundred. Ibid.

20. An Act for further continuing, until the first Day of February one thousand eight hundred and one, an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, 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. 288

21. An Act to continue, until the first Day of February one thousand eight hundred and one, an Act, made in this present Session of Parliament, to prohibit the making of low Wines or Spirits from Wheat, or other Sort of Grain, or from Meal, Flour, or Bran, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland. Ibid.

22. An Act for raising the Sum of twenty millions five hundred thousand Pounds by Way of Annuities. Ibid.

23. An Act for granting to his Majesty additional Duties of Excise on British and Foreign Spirits, and Tea. 289

24. An Act for the Regulation of his Majesty's Marine Forces while on Shore. 293

25. An Act to prohibit, until the first Day of October One thousand eight hundred, the Use of Wheat in making Starch. Ibid.

26. 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. Ibid.

27. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. Ibid.

28. An Act for establishing an Agreement with the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, for advancing the Sum of three millions towards the Supply for the Service of the Year one thousand eight hundred. 294.

29. An Act for granting Bounties on the Importation of Wheat, Wheaten Flour, and Rice, until the first Day of October one thousand eight hundred. 302

30. An