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authorities given to the said com. missioners by an act or acts of parliament.

An act to provide for the more deliberate investigation of presentments to be made by grand juries for roads and public works in Ireland, and for accounting for money raised by such pre

sentments.

An act to repeal so much of an act passed in Ireland in the 9th year of the reign of Queen Anne, intituled An act for taking away the benefit of ⚫ clergy in certain cases; and for taking away the book in all 'cases; and for repealing part of the statute for transporting 'felons;' as takes away the benefit of clergy from persons stealing privily from the person of another; and more effectually to prevent the crime of larceny from the person.

An act for the regulation of parish vestries.

An act for repealing such parts of several acts as allow pecuniary and other rewards on the conviction of persons for highway robbery, and other crimes and offences; and for facilitating the means of prosecuting persons accused of felony and other offences.

An act for granting to his Majesty a sum of money to be raised by lotteries.

An act for improving and completing the harbour of Dunmore, in the county of Waterford, and rendering it a fit situation for his Majesty's packets.

An act for regulating the payment of regimental debts, and the distribution of the effects of officers and soldiers

dying in service, and the receipt of sums due to soldiers.

An act for the further regulation of payments of pensions to soldiers upon the establishments of Chelsea and Kilmainham.

An act for the more effectual prevention of offences connected with the unlawful destruction and sale of game.

An act to subject foreigners to arrest and detention for smuggling within certain distances of any of the dominions of his Ma jesty; for regulating rewards to the seizing officers, according to the tonnage of vessels or boats seized and condemned; and for the further prevention of the importation of tea without making due entry thereof with the officers of customs and excise.

An act to repeal the duty upon rock salt delivered for feeding or mixing with the food of cattle, and imposing another duty, and making other provisions in lieu thereof.

An act to make further provi sion for the better securing the collection of the duties on malt, and to amend the laws relating to brewers in Ireland.

An act to amend an act of the

54th year of his present Majesty's reign, for granting duties on auctions in Ireland.

An act to amend an act passed in the 57th year of his present Majesty, for permitting the transfer of capital from certain public stocks or funds in Great Britain to certain public stocks or funds in Ireland.

An act for extending to that part of the united kingdom called Ireland certain provisions of the parliament of Great Britain in

relation

relation to executors under the age of 21 years, and to matrimo nial contracts.

An act to prevent frauds in the sale of grain in Ireland.

An act to amend and reduce into one act the several laws relating to the manner in which the East India Company are required to hire ships.

An act to remove doubts as to the validity of certain marriages had and solemnized within the British territories in India.

An act to carry into execution a convention made between his Majesty and the King of Portugal, for the preventing traffic in slaves.

An act for raising the sum of eleven millions SIX hundred thousand pounds by exchequer bills, for the service of the year

1818.

An act for raising the sum of eight hundred thousand pounds British currency, by treasury bills, in Ireland, for the service of the year 1818.

An act to amend two acts, made in the last session of parliament, for authorising the issue of exchequer bills, and the advance of money for carrying on public works and fisheries, and employment of the poor; and to extend the powers of the commissioners appointed for carrying the said acts into execution in Ireland.

An act to repeal so much of an act passed in the 43rd year of his present majesty, as requires the attendance of magistrates on board vessels carrying passengers from the united kingdom to his Majesty's plantations, or to foreign parts.

An act to alter and amend certain of the provisions of an act passed in the 51st year of his Majesty's reign, intituled An act to provide for the administration of the royal authority, and for the care of his Majesty's "royal person, during the continuance of his Majesty's illness; and for the resumption of the exercise of the royal authority by his Majesty.'

An act for appointing commissioners to inquire concerning charities in England for the education of the poor.

An act to consolidate and amend the provisions of several acts, passed in the 51st and 52nd years respectively of the reign of his present Majesty, for enabling wives and families of soldiers to return to their homes.

An act to afford relief to the bona fide holders of negotiable securities, without notice that they were given for a usurieus consideration.

An act to continue, until the 29th day of September, 1819, and to amend an act passed in Ireland, in the 36th year of his present Majesty, for the improvement and extension of the fisheries on the coasts of Ireland. An act to regulate the clection of coroners for counties.

An act to continue, for the term of two years, and until the end of the session of parliament in which that term shall expire, if parliament shall be then sitting, an act of the 56th year of his present Majesty, for establishing regulations respecting aliens arriving in or resident in this kingdom, in certain cases.

An act to prevent aliens, until

the

the 25th day of March, 1819, from becoming naturalized, or being made or becoming denizens, except in certain cases.

An act to explain and amend an act passed in the 51st year of his Majesty's reign, for rendering more effectual an act made in the 47th year of his Majesty's reign, for the abolition of the Slave trade.

An act for altering and amending an act made in the 55th year of his present Majesty, to amend an act made in the 48th year of his present Majesty, to improve the land revenue of the crown, so

far as relates to the great forest of Brecknock in the county of Brecknock; and for vesting in his Majesty certain parts of the said forest, and for inclosing the said forest.

An act for vesting in his Majesty certain parts of the hayes of Birkland and Bilbagh, and of certain commonable lands and open uninclosed grounds in the township of Edwinstowe, within the forest of Sherwood, in the county of Nottingham.

An act for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1819.

PATENTS

PATENTS,

From July 19, 1817, to May 2, 1818.

P. Phillips, for his new method of purifying gas for the purpose of illumination.

G. Wyke and E. Shorter, for certain improvements in the construction of wheel-carriages.

P. Hamden, for his improvements in making a composition for ornaments and statues, and for making artificial bricks.

F. Branton, for his new mode of employing silk or other materials in the making of hats and bonnets.

J. J. A. McCarthy, for his road or way for passage across rivers, creeks, &c. without stoppage or impediment.

L. F. Vallet, for a new ornamental surface to metals or metallic compositions.

G. Stratton, for a method of saving fuel by improvements in fire-places.

R. Huish, for a hive and other apparatus attached to it.

John Hawks, for a method of making iron rails to be used in the construction of railwails.

Anth. Hill, for improvements in the working of iron.

Dennis M'Carthy, for improvements on ploughs of various descriptions.

John Perks, for improvements in the apparatus for manufacturing, purifying, and storing

gas.

Tho. Taft, for an improvement in bridle-bits and leather slidingloop.

Sam. Mersey, for a mode of making and manufacturing livery lace and coach lace.

Edm. Rich. Ball, for a method of manufacturing paper of superior strength and durability.

Edward Biggs, for improvements in the method of manufacturing pans and slails of various kinds.

James Bounsall, for improvements in the machinery used for tarring, reeling, and twisting of yarn, and forming the strands of cables, &c.

William Gildart and John Servant, for improvements in mangles.

Jeptha Avery Wilkinson, for. improvements in the application of machinery for manufacturing of weavers reeds.

George Medhurst, for an arrangement of implements to form the machine called the hydraulic balance.

James M. Champness and Henry Birks, for improvements on axletrees.

Joseph Manton, for certain improvements in locks for fire

arms.

John Dale, for the application of a material to the making of rollers or cylinders.

Dr. David Brewster, for a new optical

optical instrument called the Kaleidoscope.

William Harry, for improvements in the building of roofs for the upper part of furnaces, for the smelting of copper or other ores.

John Oldham, for an improvement in the mode of propelling ships and vessels by the agency of steam.

John Dayman, for a method of coating iron, steel, or other metals, with tin, lead, or other mixtures of metals.

R. Dickinson, for his improvements in sea-beacons and their moorings.

F. Dizi, for his improvements on harps.

H. M. Ogle, for his improve on tea and coffee big

ments

gins.

G. Clymer, for certain improve ments in writing presses.

. T. C. Hansard, for his improvements to printing presses, and in the processes of printing. D. T. Shears, for his machine for the cooling of liquids.

S. Hall, for his method of improving yarn or thread of every description, and however prepared.

I. C. Niepee, for improvements in the means of propelling boats and other vessels.

I. Hague, for improvements in the method of expelling molasses or syrup from sugars.

John Turner, for improvements in the plating of copper or brass. William Buck and Rob. Hervey, for improvements in the mode of making pipes or tubes of porcelain clay, or other ductile

substances.

Joseph Wild, for a machine for

separating corn, grain, and seeds, from the straw.

Stephen Price, for his improved substitute for teasles.

D. Wheeler and Co. for a new and improved method of preparing brown malt.

John and William Lewis, and William Davies, for improvements on wire gig mills, for the purpose of dressing woollen and other cloths.

W. Cleland, for an improvement in the bleaching of flax and hemp.

E. Cowper, for improvements in printing presses.

William Moult, for improvements in steam-engines.

John and William Lewis, and William Davies, for improvements on shearing machines.

Ph. Taylor, for a method of applying heat in certain processes to which it has not hitherto been applied.

C. Brightly, and B. Donkin, for a printing press for printing from types, plates, or blocks.

M. J. Brunel, for a method for forming tunnels or drifts under ground.

J. Cofty, for additions to the apparatus used for distilling.

G. F. Hagner, for certain improvements in the manufacture of white lead and verdigris.

Z. Barrat, for a machine for curing, cleansing, sweeping, and ventilating chimneys, and extinguishing them when on fire.

J. Collier, for various improve. ments on a machine in use for the dressing and gigging of woollen cloths.

R. Clayton, for a method of depositing certain metals in wood. W. Crawshay the younger, and D. Mushet,

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