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or Ireland, having been imported into either country from the other.

An act to amend so much of an act of the 33d year of his present Majesty, as relates to fixing the limits of the towns of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay; and also so much of an act of the 39th and 40th year of his A present Majesty, as relates to granting letters of administration to the effects of persons dying intestate within the several presidencies in the East Indies, to the Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Courts; and to enable the governor in council of the said presidencies to remove persons not being British subjects; and to make provision for the judges in the East Indies in certain

cases.

An act to amend and continue for one year, and until twelve months after the termination of the present war by the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace, two acts of his present Majesty, for enabling subjects of foreign states to enlist and serve as soldiers in his Majesty's service; and to enable his Majesty to grant commissions to subjects of foreign states to serve as officers, under certain restrictions.

An act to continue, until the 25th day of March 1820, an act made in the 46th year of his present Majesty, for permitting the importation of masts, yards, bowsprits, and timber for naval purposes, from the British colonies in North America,

An act to relieve certain foreign vessels resorting to the port of London in respect of pilotage; and to regulate the mode of payment of pilotage on foreign vessels in the said port.

An act to amend an act of the last session of Parliament, for rendering more easy and effectual redress for assaults in Ireland.

An act to amend an act of the 53d

year of his Majesty's reign, for making regulations for the building and repairing of court-houses and sessionhouses in Ireland.

An act to explain an act made in the Parliament of Ireland, in the 32d year of his Majesty's reign, relative to inland navigations there, so far as relates to the limitation of actions against canal companies and other.

An act for the payment of costs and charges to prosecutors and witnesses, in cases of felony in Ireland.

An act to amend an act of the 50th year of his Majesty's reign, relating to prisons in Ireland, so far as concerns contracts for building or repairing such prisons.

An act to repeal the duties pay. able on, and the permission to enter for home consumption, silk handkerchiefs imported by the East India Company.

An act to continue and amend se

veral acts relating to the British white herring fishery.

An act to repeal the duties payable on the importation into Great Britain of solid vegetable extract from oak bark, and other vegetable substances used in the tanning of leather; and to grant a duty in lieu thereof.

An act to grant a further sum of money for purchasing an estate to ac company the title of Earl Nelson, and also to amend two acts of the 46th and 53d years of his present Majesty's reign for making such purchase.

An act to grant to the judges of the Commissary Court of Edinburgh a fixed salary in place of their present salary, and certain fees and payments.

An act to enable the select committee on the Downpatrick election to re-assemble, and to suspend the transmission of the warrants and other

proceedings for the appointment of commissions to examine witnesses in Ireland.

An act to make further provisions for collecting and securing the duties of Excise on malt made in Ireland.

An act to provide for the collection and management of stamp duties payable on bills of exchange, promissory notes, receipts, and game certificates in Ireland.

An act to regulate the collection of stamp-duties on matters in respect of which licences may be granted by the commissioners of stamps in Ireland. An act to repeal certain duties on leather dressed in oil in Great Britain, or imported from Ireland.

An act to regulate the postage of ship letters to and from Ireland.

An act to make further provisions for the issuing of licences to persons to deal in, retail, make, or manufacture spirits and other exciseable commodities in Ireland, and for securing the duties of excise payable by the persons so licenced.

An act to make further provisions for collecting and securing the duties of excise on hides and skins tanned in Ireland.

An act to make further provisions for collecting and securing the du ties of excise on paper printed, painted, or stained in Ireland, to serve for hangings and other uses.

An act to regulate the appointment of governors of the Richmond Lunatic Asylum in Dublin.

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

An act to enable the sheriff-depute or substitute and justices of the peace of the county of Clackmannan, to incarcerate persons in the gaol of the royal burgh of Stirling, or the common gaol of the county of Stirling.

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An act for the better regulating and securing the collection of the du ties on paper made in Ireland, and to prevent frauds therein.

An act for altering certain drawbacks and countervailing duties on glass, for exempting Irish glass bottles from the duty imposed by an act of the last session of Parliament, and for exempting the leather and glass of carriages belonging to certain persons imported from Ireland for private use from duty.

An act to augment the salary of the Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and to enable his Majesty to grant an additional annuity to such Master of the Rolls on the resignation of his of fice; and to regulate the disposal of the offices of the six clerks in the Court of Chancery in Ireland.

An act to carry into effect a convention made between his Majesty and the King of the Netherlands and the Emperor of all the Russias.

An act to make further regulations for the registry of ships built in India.

An act to permit, until six weeks after the commencement of the next session of Parliament, the importation into Great Britain and Ireland, in neutral vessels, from states in amity with his Majesty, of certain goods, wares, and merchandize, and to prohibit the exportation of copper; and to permit the importation, in neutral vessels, from states not in amity with his Majesty, of certain goods, wares, and merchandize.

An act to regulate the clearance of vessels, and delivery of coast bonds, at creeks and harbours in Great Bri tain; for exempting certain ships and

vessels from being licensed by the commissioners of customs; for authorizing officers of the customs to seize spirits removing without excise permits; and for preventing frauds in overloading keels and other carriages used in conveying coals for exportation, or to be carried coastwise.

An act to enable the trustees of turnpike-roads to abate the tolls on carriages, and to allow of their carrying extra weights in certain cases.

An act to provide for the taking an account of the population of Ireland, and for the ascertaining the increase or diminution thereof.

An act to amend and explain an act passed in the 54th year of his present Majesty, for maintaining and keep. ing in repair certain roads and bridges made in Scotland for the purpose of military communication; and for making more effectual provision for maintaining and repairing roads made and bridges built in Scotland, under the authority of the parliamentary commissioners for highland roads and bridges.

An act to amend an act of the 53d year of his present Majesty, for vesting in his Majesty certain parts of Windsor forest, in the county of Berks; and for enclosing the open commonable lands within the said fo.

rest.

An act for making compensation for lands and hereditaments taken for erecting works at and near Portsmouth and Hilsea, in the county of Southampton, in pursuance of an act made in the last session of Parliament.

An act for raising the sum of 36 millions by way of annuities.

An act to amend an act of his late Majesty King George the 2d, for the relief of the out-pensioners of the royal hospital at Chelsea.

An act to authorize the allowing to foreign officers, allowances equiva

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lent in amount to the half-pay given to British officers under the like cir cumstances.

An act to repeal an act of the 53d year of his present Majesty, for preventing the embezzlement of stores; and to extend the provisions of the several acts relating to his Majesty's na val, ordnance, and victualling stores, to all other public stores.

An act to enable his Majesty to acquire ground necessary for signal and telegraph stations.

An act to increase the draw-backs and countervailing duties on tobacco, and to limit the tonnage of ships in which wine may be exported when du. ties are drawn back.

An act for further regulating the issue and payment of money to his Majesty's forces serving abroad.

An act for discontinuing certain deductions from half-pay, and for fur ther regulating the accounts of the paymaster-general.

An act to continue, until the end of the next session of Parliament, for regulating the trade in spirits between Great Britain and Ireland respectively.

An act to, grant farther powers to the commissioners of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals with respect to pensions on those establishments.

An act for altering the rate at which the crown may exercise its right of pre-emption of ore in which there is lead.

An act to alter the conditions and regulations under which blubber and train-oil of Newfoundland are admit. ted to entry.

An act for the relief of the out-pensioners of the royal hospital of Kilmainham.

An act to prevent poor persons in workhouses from embezzling certain property provided for their use; to alter and amend so much of an act of the 36th year of his present Majesty,

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as restrains justices of the peace from ordering relief to poor persons in certain cases for a longer period than one month at a time; and for other purposes therein mentioned, relating to the poor.

An act for vesting in his Majesty certain parts of the forests of Exmoor, otherwise Exmore, in the counties of Somerset and Devon; and for inclosing the said forest.

An act to grant an additional duty of excise in Ireland, upon spirits made or distilled from corn or grain.

An act to make further provisions for the collection of certain duties on male servants, carriages, and horses; and in respect of houses in Ireland.

An act to amend an act made in this session of Parliament to repeal former acts granting_exclusive privilege of trade to the South Sea Company, and to indemnify the said Company for the loss of such privileges.

An act to reduce the duties on all sheep-wool, the growth of the united kingdom, which shall be sold by auction for the growers or first purcha

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greater value, or more conveniently situated for their residence and occupation: and for annexing such houses and lands, so taken in exchange, to such benefices as parsonage or glebe houses and glebe lands, and for purchasing and annexing lands to become glebe in certain cases, and for other purposes.

An act for raising the sum of 4,500,000l. by Exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain for the year 1815.

An act for raising the sum of 1,500,000l. by Exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain for the year 1815.

An act for reotifying mistakes in the names of land-tax commissioners, and for appointing additional commis. sioners, and indemnifying such persons as have acted without due autho rity in execution of the acts therein recited.

An act to amend the laws for im posing and levying of fines, in respect of unlawful distillation of spirits in Ireland.

An act for granting to his Majesty the sum of 20,000l. to be issued and applied towards repairing roads between London and Holyhead, by Chester, and between London and Bangor, by Shrewsbury.

An act for granting certain rates on postage and letters to and from Great Britain, the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, and the East Indies; and for making certain regulations respecting the postage of ship letters, and of letters in Great Britain.

An act for fixing the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers.

An act to continue, until the 5th day of July 1816, the temporary fourth part of the duties payable in Scotland upon distillers' wash, spirits, and licences imposed by an act of the 54th year of his present Majesty ; and

for enabling his Majesty, by order in council, to modify the operations of the said act, or reduce the duties thereby imposed.

An act to amend the laws relative to the transportation of offenders; to continue in force until the first day of May 1816.

An act for the better examination of witnesses in the Courts of Equity in Ireland, and for empowering the Courts of Law and Equity in Ireland to grant commissioners for taking affidavits in all parts of Great Britain.

An act to enable grand juries to present additional sums for constables in Ireland, and for the secure conveyance of prisoners.

An act to amend several acts relating to hackney coaches; for authorizing the licensing of an additional number of hackney chariots; and for licensing carriages drawn by one horse. An act for the encouragement of seamen, and the more effectual manning of his Majesty's navy during the present war.

An act to amend and render more effectual an act of the 52d year of his present Majesty, to amend and regulate the assessment and collection of the assessed taxes, and of the rates and duties on profits arising on property, professions, trades, and offices, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

An act to repeal the Excise duties and drawbacks on Epsom salt.

An act to regulate the issuing of li cences to allow open boats to proceed to foreign parts, and for revoking the same when necessary.

An act to exonerate, in certain cases, foreign spirits imported during the suspension of the spirit intercourse between Great Britain and Ireland, from the additional duty imposed thereon.

An act to defray the charge of the pay, clothing, and contingent expenses

of the disembodied militia in Great Britain, and of the miners of Cornwall and Devon; and for granting allowances, in certain cases, to subaltern officers, adjutants, surgeons, mates, and serjeant-majors of militia, until the 25th day of March 1816.

An act for defraying the charge of the pay and clothing of the local militia in Great Britain, to the 25th day of March 1816.

An act for defraying, until the 25th day of June 1816, the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia of Ireland; and for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the said militia during peace.

An act to explain and amend the laws relating to the militias of Great Britain and Ireland.

An act to provide for the charge of the addition to the public funded debt of Great Britain, for the service of the year 1815.

An act to amend an act passed in the last session of Parliament, for better regulating the office of agent-general for volunteers and local militia, and for the more effectually regulating the same.

An act to continue for one year certain acts for the better prevention and punishment of attempts to seduce persons serving in his Majesty's forces by sea and land, from their duty and allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite them to mutiny or disobedience.

An act to provide for the support of captured slaves during the period of adjudication.

An act for the better protection of the trade of the united kingdom during the present hostilities with France.

An act to extend the exemption granted by law on coals and culm, for which the coast duties have been duly paid, on being again exported and carried to any place in this kingdom, to cinders or coked coals burnt from pitcoal, which has paid the coast duties.

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