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xx The TITLES of the STATUTES. 46. An Act for the more easy and expeditious Recovery of Small Debts, and determining Small causes in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland. Page 320

47. An Act for repealing the Rates and Fares taken by Licensed Hackney Coachmen, and for establishing other Rates and Fares in lieu thereof; and for explaining and amending several Laws relating to Hackney Coaches and Chairs. 324

48. An Act to repeal the Duties on Sugar and Coffee exported, granted by an Act passed in the thirty-ninth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, for allowing British Plantation Sugar to be warehoused; for reviving 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 certain Drawbacks on Sugar exported, until the tenth Day of May one thousand eight hundred and one. 327

49. An Act for the better ascertaining and collecting the Duties granted by several Acts passed in the last Session of Parliament, relating to the Duties on Income; and to explain and amend the said Acts. 329

50. An Act to extend the Provisions of an Act made in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of King George the Second, intituled, An Act to amend and make more effectual the Laws relating to Rogues, Vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly Persons, and to Houses of Correction. 339

51. An Act to permit Blubber from the Greenland Fishery and Davis's Streights to be boiled into Oil after the Arrival of the Ships from the Fishery, and for charging the Duty thereon; for altering the Convoy Duty now payable on the Importation of Opium; for repealing the Duties on the Importation of Oil of Turpentine and Tar, and charging other Duties in lieu thereof; for exempting Burr Stones, and Stones used for the Purpose of paving or the making or mending of Roads, from the Duties charged thereon when carried Coastwise; for obliging Masters of Ships laden with Tobacco to remove the same from their Moorings when their Cargoes are discharged; and for extending Bonds given on licensing Ships, Vessels, or Boats, to all Cases wherein Ships, Vessels, or Boats may be liable to Forfeiture. 340

52. An Act for granting to his Majesty a certain Sum of Money, to be raised by a Lottery. 343

53. An Act for granting a Bounty on the Importation of Rye, until the fifteenth Day of October one thousand eight hundred. 344

54. An Act for more effectually charging Publick Accountants with the Payment of Interest; for allowing Interest to them in certain cases; and for compelling the Payment of Balances due from them. Ibid.

55. An Act to amend so much of an Act, made in the last Session of Parliament, for the Augmentation of the Salaries of the Judges of the Courts in Westminster Hall, and also of the Lords of Session, Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, and Barons of Exchequer in Scotland, as relates to the Salaries of the Judges of the Courts of Session, Judiciary, and Exchequer in Scotland. 348

56. An Act for Relief of Persons entitled to entailed Estates to be purchased with Trust Monies. Ibid.

57. An Act for enabling the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland to advance to the Lord Provost and Magistrates of the City of Edinburgh, for the Purpose of completing the Improvements of the Harbour of Leith, a certain Sum, being Part of the Money which by an Act of the last Session of Parliament was directed to be paid into the said Court of Exchequer by the Proprietors of the Forth and Clyde Navigation. 349

58. An Act for further continuing and amending an Act, made in 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 349

59. An Act to remove Doubts arising from the Construction, of-an Act made in the thirty-ninth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, 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. Ibid.

60. An Act to lessen the Duties on Wine and Spirits the Produce of the British Settlement of the Cape of Good Hope; and to empower the Importers to land the same before Payment of the Duties of Excise, and to lodge the same in Warehouses; and to allow the same to be shipped free of Duty as Stores, to be consumed on board Merchants’ Ships on their Voyages. 350

61. An Act to revive and continue, until the first Day of July one thousand eight hundred and one, such Part of an Act, made in the present Session of Parliament, for reducing the Duties upon Spirits distilled from Melasses or Sugar, or any Mixture therewith, and for other Purposes, as relates to the Duties on Wort or Wash brewed or made from Melasses or Sugar. 352

62. An Act to allow, for nine Months after the passing of the Act, the Use of Sugar in the brewing of Beer. 353

63. An Act for repealing Part of the Duties and Drawbacks of Customs on Kid Skins imported, and the Exemption of imported Kid Skins from Excise Duty, on being dressed in Great Britain. Ibid.

64. An Act for permitting the free Importation of Linseed Cakes and Rape Cakes in Neutral Ships. 354

65. An Act to continue, until the first Day of January one thousand eight hundred and four, several Acts relating to the Admission of certain Articles of Merchandize in Neutral Ships, and to the issuing of Orders in Council for that Purpose. Ibid.

66. An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the second Year of King James the First, as prohibits the Use of Horse Hides in making Boots and Shoes; and for better preventing the damaging of Raw Hides and Skins in the flaying thereof. Ibid.

67. An Act for the Union of Great Britain and Ireland. 359

68. An Act for extending the Powers of the Commissioners named in an Act, made in this present Session of Parliament, intituled, 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; for indemnifying such Persons, named in the said Act, as have acted as Commissioners of the Land Tax; and for rendering valid certain Acts done by them. 375

69. An Act for repealing the Duties on Perfumery and on Licences for vending the same. 376

70. An Act to exempt from Duty Waste Paper imported into this Kingdom, for the Purpose of being re-manufactured, except the Duty imposed by an Act of the thirty-eighth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for the better Protection of the Trade of this Kingdom, and for granting