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(Public General,) 39 & 40 GEO. III. xix 30. An Act for extending, from the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand eight hundred, until the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand eight hundred and one, the Period of Preference, granted and continued by several Acts to Bodies Corporate and Persons for the Redemption of Land Tax; and for enlarging several of the Powers contained in the said Acts. Page 303

31. An Act for appointing Commissioners to put in Execution an Act of this Session of Parliament, intituled, an Act for continuing and granting to his Majesty a Duty on Pensions, Offices, and Personal Estates, in England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and certain Duties on Sugar, Malt, Tobacco, and Snuff, for the Service of the Year one thousand eight hundred, together with those named in two former Acts for appointing Commissioners of the Land Tax. 307

32. An Act for indemnifying Persons serving in Volunteer Corps, who have omitted to take out Certificates for wearing Hair Powder: and to amend so much of an Act, made in the thirty-fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for granting to his Majesty a Duty on Certificates issued for using Hair Powder, as relates to the exempting Persons serving in Volunteer Corps, and certain Officers in his Majesty's Navy serving on the Establishment of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, from the said Duty; and for obliging Persons claiming to be exempt from the Duties on Horses provided and furnished for Volunteer Corps to deliver Certificates thereof to the proper Officers. 308

33. 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 Aids or Supplies as have been or shall be granted by Parliament, for the Service of the Year one thousand eight hundred; and to enable the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to advance Cash or Bullion, to be remitted Abroad on Account of Foreign Subsidies or Services Abroad. 310

34. An Act to permit the Importation of Goods and Commodities from Countries in America, belonging to any Foreign European Sovereign or State, in neutral Ships, until the twenty-ninth Day of September, one thousand eight hundred and one. Ibid.

35. An Act for granting a Bounty on the Importation of Oats, until the first Day of October one thousand eight hundred. 311

36. An Act to enable Courts of Equity to compel a Transfer of Stock in Suits, without making the Governor and Company of the Bank of England, or the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, or the Governor and Company of Merchants of Great Britain trading to the South Seas or other Parts of America, Party thereto. 312

37. 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 eight hundred. 313

38. An Act for repealing so much of an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, 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; as relates to Saltpetre. Ibid.

39. An Act for encreasing the Rates of Subsistence to be paid to Innkeepers and others on quartering Soldiers. Ibid.

40. An Act to enlarge the Powers of the Directors and Guardians of the Poor within the several Hundreds, Towns, and Districts, in that Part of Great Britain called England, incorporated by divers Acts of Parliament, for the Purpose of the better Maintenance and Employment of the Poor, as to the Assessments to be made upon the several Parishes, Hamlets and Places therein mentioned, until the first Day of January one thousand eight hundred and two. Page 314

41. An Act for explaining and amending several Acts made in the thirty-second Year of King Henry the Eighth, and the first, thirteenth, and fourteenth Years of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, so far as respects Leases granted by Archbishops, Bishops, Masters and Fellows of Colleges, Deans and Chapters of Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, Mailers and Guardians of Hospitals, and others having any Spiritual or Ecclesiastical Living or Promotion. 315

42. An Act for the better Observance of Good Friday in certain Cases therein mentioned. 317

43. An Act to confirm an Agreement entered into between the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury and the Most Noble Charles Duke of Richmond, in pursuance of an Act passed in the thirty-ninth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, an Act to enable the Commissioners of the Treasury to contract with the Most Noble Charles Duke Richmond, for the absolute Purchase of the Property of the said Duke, and of ail others interest ed, 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. Ibid.

44. An Act for granting, until the twenty-fifth Day of March one thousand eight hundred and one, certain Allowances, to Adjutants, Serjeant Majors, and Serjeants of Militia, disembodied under an Act of this Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for enabling his Majesty to accept the Services of an additional Number of Volunteers from the Militia, under certain Restrictions. 318

45. An Act for making perpetual so much of an Act, made in the thirty-fifth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for better securing the Duties on Glass, as was to continue in force for a limited Time; and to continue several Laws relating to the granting a Bounty upon certain Species of British and Irish Linens exported, and taking off the Duties on the Importation of Foreign Raw Linen Yarns made of Flax, until the twenty-fourth Day of June one thousand eight hundred and one; to the better Encouragement of the making of Sail Cloth in Great Britain, to the encouraging the Manufacture of British Sail Cloth, and securing the Duties on Foreign-made Sail Cloth imported, to the securing the Duties upon Foreign-made Sail Cloth, and charging Foreign-made Sails with a Duty, until the twenty-ninth Day of September one thousand eight hundred and four, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament; to the regulating the Fees of the Officers of the Customs, and of the Naval Officers in the British Colonies in America, and of the Officers of the Customs in the Island of Newfoundland, until the ninth Day of May one thousand eight hundred and four, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament; to the landing Rum or Spirits of the British Sugar Plantations, before Payment of the Duties of Excise, until the twenty-ninth Day of September one thousand eight hundred and five, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament; to the encouraging the Fisheries carried on at Newfoundland and Parts adjacent, from Great Britain, Ireland, and the British Dominions in Europe, until the first Day of January one thousand eight hundred and two; and to the further Support and Encouragement of the Fisheries carried on in the Greenland Seas and Davis's Straits, until the twenty-fifth Day of December one thousand eight hundred and one. 320

46. An