and commonable lands, within the manor, parish, and liberties of Westbury, in the county of Buckingham.

62. An act for dividing and inclofing the common fields, common meadows, and common paftures, in the parish of Nether Broughton, in the county of Leicester.

63. An act for dividing and inclofing a moor, or common, called Staindrop Moor, within the township of Staindrop, in the county of Durham.

64. An act for dividing and inclosing the open and common fields, in the parish of Great Wigfton, in the county of Leicester.

65. An act for dividing and inclosing the open and common fields, common paftures, common meadows, common grounds, and waste grounds, in the parish of Hufbands Bosworth, otherwife Borefworth, in the county of Leicester.

66. An act for dividing and inclofing the common or waste grounds within the manor of Wombwell, in the county of York.

67. An act for dividing and inclofing the open and common field, common meadows, common paftures, common grounds, and commonable lands, lying within the township, hamlets, and liberties of Warkworth, in the county of Northampton.

68. An act for vefting divers manors, lands, and heredita ments, in the counties of Bedford, Dorfet, and Lancaster, comprized in the marriage fettlement of John earl of Ashburnham, in him the said earl, in fee fimple, discharged of the uses and trufts of that fettlement, and for fubftituting and fettling other lands and hereditaments, in the dominion of Wales, in lieu thereof, and to the like uses.

69. An act to impower the guardians of George earl of Egremont, an infant, to enfranchife certain customary lands and hereditaments, in the county of Cumberland, part of the fettled eftates of the earl; and alfo to impower the guardians of the faid earl, and his infant brothers, to make leafes of part of the said eftate, in the county of Cumberland, and to make leafes and copyhold grants of the feveral eftates limited and devifed to them refpectively by Charles earl of Egremont their late father, deceased, and for other the purposes therein mentioned.

70. An act for vefting lands and hereditaments in Great Britain and Ireland, part of the eftate of James earl of Barymore, in trustees, for raifing money towards paying and discharging the debts and incumbrances affecting his real estates.

71. An act for fettling the eftate of Henrietta Rofa Peregrina Townsend, wife of James Townsend, efquire, according to certain articles of agreement executed before her intermarriage with the faid James Townsend, but fubject to the charges and incumbrances affecting the fame.

72. An act for enlarging the charitable ufes, extending the objects, and regulating the application of the rents and profits of the eftates given by Sir William Harpur knight, and dame Alice his wife, for the benefit of the poor, and other objects of charity, of the town of Bedford.

73. An act to enable the warden and fellows of the college of Chrift, in Manchester, in the county palatine of Lancaster, for

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the time being, to grant leases of the glebe lands belonging to the faid college.

74. An act to impower the honourable George Lane Parker, to fhut up a road or way now used over certain inclofed lands, in the parish of Gamblingay, in the county of Cambridge, and for extinguishing all right to a certain toll which he now is intitled to in two lanes, near the faid road or way, and for obliging him to keep the faid lanes in repair.

75. An act for enlarging the time given to trustees therein. named, to execute certain trufts vested in them, in and by an act of parliament made in the fixteenth year of the reign of his late Majesty, intituled, An act for vefling the remainder in fee of feveral lands in Ireland, the eftate of Arthur Plunkett efquire, in trustees, in order to fell fuch lands to proteftant purchafers; and also by another act of parliament made in the thirty fecond year of the reign of his faid late Majesty, intituled, An act for giving further time to trustees therein named, to execute certain trufts vested in them, in and by the faid act of parliament made in the faid fixteenth year of the reign of his faid late Majefty.

76. An act for divefting out of the crown, the reversion in fee, of certain lands in Ireland, late the eftate of Matthew Dowdall, a papift, deceased, expectant upon the death of his three grandfons, without iffue male; and for vefting the fame in Anthony Ladeveze, of the city of Dublin efquire, a proteftant and his heirs.

77. An act for divesting out of the crown, and to vest in Gerald Fitzgerald, of Rathorne, in the county of Meath, in the kingdom of Ireland, efquire, and his heirs, the reverfion in fee of and in several lands in Ireland.

78. An act to enable the mayor and aldermen of the town of Saffron Walden, in the county of Effex, the guardians or trustees of King Edward the Sixth's alms-houses there, and other the feoffees thereof, to convey part of the lands, revenues, and poffeffions, of the faid alms-houses, to Sir John Griffin Griffin, and his heirs, in exchange for other lands of greater value, to be conveyed to, and held by, them, to the ufes, and upon the trufts therein mentioned; and for vefting part of the lands of Thomas Fuller, an infant, in Saffron Walden aforefaid, in the faid Sir John Griffin Griffin, and his heirs, in exchange for other lands of greater value, to be conveyed to the faid infant, and his heirs; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

79. An act for vefting certain meffuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in the town and county of Northampton, devifed by the will of Edward Bayly, deceafed, in trustees, to be fold, and for laying out the money, arifing by such sale, in the purchase of other lands, to be fettled to the like uses.

80. An act to diffolve the marriage of John Weller efquire, with Charlotte Wilson, his now wife, and to enable him to marry again and for other purposes therein mentioned.

81. An act for naturalizing Peter Pohlmann, and David Godin. 82. An act for naturalizing Henry Kock.

83. An act for naturalizing Alexander Jofeph Peittier.

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Being the Fourth Seffion of the Twelfth Parliament of GREAT BRITAIN.

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PUBLICK ACTS.

N act for importation of falted beef, pork, bacon, and butter, from Ireland, for a limited time,

II. An act for continuing and granting to his Majesty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and fixty five.

III. An act for extending the time granted by an act paffed in the third year of the reign of his prefent Majetty, for allowing his Majefty's fubjects to import their goods and effects, being the produce of certain places ceded to France and Spain by the late treaty of peace, upon payment of the fame duties as they would have been liable to if the fame places had remained in his Majesty's poffeffion.

IV. An act to indemnify such persons as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments; and to indemnify justices of the peace, deputy lieutenants, officers of the militia, or others, who have omitted to register or deliver in their qualifications within the time limited by law, and for giving further time for those purposes.

V. An act for granting an aid to his Majefty by a land tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thoufand feven hundred and fixty five.

VI. An act for the regulation of his Majefty's marine forces while on thore.

VII. An act for punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

VIII. An act for the more eafy and speedy recovery of small debts within the hundreds of Blackheath, of Bromley and Beckenham, of Rokefly, otherwife Ruxley, and of Little and Lessness, in the county of Kent.

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IX. An act for the more easy and speedy recovery of smal debts within the hundreds of Chippenham, Calne, and Damerham North, and lordship or liberty of Corfham, in the county of Wilts.

X. An act to permit the free importation of cattle from Ireland. XI. An act for rendering more effectual an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An act for providing a publick reward for Juch perfon or perfons as fball difcover the longitude at fea, with regard to the making experiments of propofals made for difcovering the longitude. XII. An act for granting and applying certain stamp duties, and other duties, in the British colonies and plantations in America, towards further defraying the expences of defending, protecting, and fecuring the fame; and for amending fuch parts of the several acts of parliament relating to the trade and revenues of the faid colonies and plantations, as direct the manner of determining and recovering the penalties and forfeitures therein mentioned.

XIII. An act for impowering the commiffioners for putting in execution the feveral acts paffed for paving, cleanfing, and lighting, the fquares, ftreets, and lanes, within the city and liberty of Westminster, and parts adjacent, to collect certain tolls on Sundays, upon the feveral roads therein mentioned, and apply the fame for the purposes of the said acts.

XIV. An act for the more effectual preservation of fish in fish ponds and other waters; and conies in warrens; and for preventing the damage done to fea banks, within the county of Lincoln, by the breeding conies therein.

XV. An act for enlarging the times limited for executing and performing feveral provifions, powers and directions, in certain acts of this feffion of parliament.

XVI. An act for altering the times of payment of certain annuities, established by two acts made in the thirty third year of the reign of his late Majefty, and in the fecond year of the reign of his present Majefty.

XVII. An act to confirm all leafes already made by archbishops and bishops, and other ecclefiaftical perfons, of tythes and other incorporeal hereditaments, for one, two, or three life or lives, or twenty one years; and to enable them to grant fuch leases, and to bring actions of debt for recovery of rents referved and in arrear on leafes for life or lives.

XVIII. An act for continuing an act, made in the thirty first year of his late Majefty's reign, for encouraging the growth and cultivation of madder in that part of Great Britain called England, by afcertaining the tythe thereof.

XIX. An act for raifing a certain fum of money by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and fixty five.

XX. An act for explaining and rendering more effectual two acts, one made in the twelfth year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled, An act for providing a publick reward for fuch perfon or perfons as fhall difcover the longitude at fea; and the other in the twenty fixth year of the reign of King George the Second, intituled, An act to render more effectual an act made in the twelfth year,

of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An act for providing a publick reward for fuch perfon or perfons as shall difcover the longitude at fea, with regard to the making experiments of proposals made for difcovering the longitude; and to enlarge the number of commiffioners for putting in execution the faid act.

XXI. An act for appointing commiffioners to put in execution an act of this feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for granting an aid to his Majefty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and fixty five, together with those named in two former acts for appointing commiffioners of the land tax; and for indemnifying perfons who have acted as commiffioners of the land tax, by virtue of eftates of or above a certain value, though the fame were not rated or affeffed at the value of one hundred pounds per annum; and for limiting a time within which fuits and profecutions fhall be commenced, with refpect to the qualifications of perfons who shall act as commiffioners of the land tax.

XXII. An act for the further encouragement of the British white herring fishery.

XXIII. An act for granting annuities, to be attended with a lottery, to fatisfy and difcharge certain navy, victualling, and tranfport bills; and for charging the payment of fuch annuities on the finking fund.

XXIV. An act to oblige agents for prize money to account for such fums of money as remain in their hands unclaimed, the property of any of his Majefty's land forces; and for the application thereof."

XXV. An act to alter certain rates of poftage, and to amend, explain, and enlarge, feveral provifions in an act made in the ninth year of the reign of Queen Anne, and in other acts relating to the revenue of the poft office.

XXVI. An act for carrying into execution a contract made, pursuant to the act of parliament of the twelfth of his late majefty King George the Firft, between the commiffioners of his Majesty's treasury and the duke and dutchefs of Atholl, the proprietors of the Isle of Man, and their trustees, for the purchase of the faid ifland and its dependencies, under certain exceptions therein particularly mentioned.

XXVII. An act to provide for the administration of the government, in cafe the crown fhould defcend to any of the children of his Majefty, being under the age of eighteen years; and for the care and guardianship of their perfons.

XXVIII. An act to impower the high court of Chancery to lay out, upon government fecurities, a fum of money therein mentioned, out of the common and general cash in the bank of England belonging to the fuitors of the faid court; and to apply the intereft arifing therefrom, towards augmenting the income of the mafters of the faid court.

XXIX. An act for repealing the duties now payable upon raw filk imported, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof; for allowing a drawback on the exportation of raw or thrown filk to Ireland, and for prohibiting the exportation of raw filk from Ireland,

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