towns, whofe admiffions have been omitted to be stamped according to law, or, having been ftamped, have been loft or miflaid; and for allowing them time to provide admiffions duly ftamped; and to give further time to fuch perfons as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and folicitors.

Cap. 40. To repeal fuch part of an act, made in the last feffion of parliament, as relates to the manner of difcharging bonds given for the due exportation of certain goods from Great Britain to foreign parts; and to extend fuch part of the fame act, as obliges the master of British or Irifh fhips, failing from any of his Majefty's dominions into the Baltic, to deliver a manifest of their cargoes to the British conful refiding there, to the like veffels failing into Denmark, Norway, and Archangel.

Cap. 41. For uniting the free grammar fchool of James King of England, within the town of Henley upon Thames, in the county of Oxford, with the charity fchool founded in the same town by dame Elizabeth Periam widow; and for the better regulation and management of the faid endowments.

Cap. 42. To enable the corporation of Trinity Houfe of Deptford Strond to establish and maintain a light houfe on the rocks called The Smalls, in Saint George's Channel.

Cap. 43. To repeal an act, paffed in the laft feffion of parlia ment, for the recovery of small debts, within the feveral parishes of Surfleet, Golberton, Quadring, Donnington, Bicker, Swinefhead, Wigtoft, Sutterton, Algarkirke, Foldyke, Kirton, Frampton, Wiberton, and Brothertoft, within the hundred of Kirton, and county of Lincoln.

Cap. 44. For building a ftone bridge across the river Tyne, oppofite the town of Hexham, in the county of Northumberland, and for making proper roads and avenues to and from the fame.

Cap. 45. To continue the feveral laws therein mentioned, relating to the allowance upon the exportation of British-made gunpowder; to the further encouraging the manufacture of Britif fail cloth, and to the duties payable on foreign fail cloth; to the granting a liberty to carry fugars of the growth, produce, or manufacture, of any of his Majefty's fugar colonies, directly to foreign parts, in fhips built in Great Britain, and navigated according to law; to the further punishment of perfons going armed or difguifed, in defiance of the laws of cuftoms or excife; to the prohibiting the importation of light filver coin of this realm from foreign countries into Great Britain or Ireland, and to restrain the tender thereof beyond a certain fum; to the granting a bounty upon flax-feed imported into Ireland; to the better regulating of pilots for the conducting of ships and veffels from Dover, Deal, and Ile of Thanet; and to revive and continue so much of an act, made in the fixteenth year of his prefent Majefty's reign, as relates to allowing the exportation of certain quantities of wheat, and other articles, to his Majesty's fugar colonies in America.

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Cap. 46. For allowing further time for inrolment of deeds and wills made by papifts, and for relief of protestant pur

chafers.

Cap. 47. To amend fuch part of an act, made in the fortythird year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An act for the relief of the poor, as relates to the binding of parish appren

tices.

Cap. 48. For impowering the mayor, aldermen, and commons, of the city of London, in common council affembled, to raile, upon the credit of the furpluffes to arife out of a certain fund, commonly called The Orphans Fund, the fum of forty thoufand pounds, towards difcharging the debt incurred in rebuilding the gaol of Newgate, and a Seffions-house adjoining, and for completing the faid gaol, and building an infirmary thereto; and other the purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 49. For applying the fum of one thousand pounds, to arife out of the furpluffes of a certain fund, commonly called The Orphans Fund, for the purpose of opening communications between Wapping.freet and Ratcliff-highway, and between Old Gravel-lane and Virginia-ftreet, within the parishes of Saint George and Saint John of Wapping, in the county of Middlefex.

Cap. 50. For applying the fum of one thousand five hundred pounds, to arife out of the furpluffes of a certain fund, commonly called The Orphans Fund, for the purpose of widening certain avenues leading into Goodman's Fields, in the county of Middlefex.

Cap. 51. For applying the fum of four thousand pounds, to arife out of the furpluffes of a certain fund, commonly called The Orphans Fund, towards completing the paving of the town and borough of Southwark, and certain parts adjacent, in the county of Surrey.

Cap. 52. For the relief of infolvent debtors; and for the relief of bankrupts, in certain cafes.

Cap. 53. For the more easy and better recruiting of his Majefty's land forces and marines.

Cap. 54. For granting to his Majefty a certain fum of money out of the finking fund; and for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight; and for further appropriating the fupplies granted in this feffion of parliament; and for carrying to the aggregate fund a fum of money which hath arifen by the two fevenths excife.

Cap. 55. To permit the exportation of certain goods, directly from Ireland, into any British plantation in America, or any British fettlement on the coaft of Africa; and for further encouraging the fisheries and navigation of Ireland.

Cap. 56. To permit the importation of cotton-yarn, the ma-. nufacture of Ireland, into this kingdom duty-free.

Cap. 57. For raifing a further fum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and feventy-eight.

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Cap. 58. To explain and amend fo much of an act, made in the fourth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, as relates to the preventing the clandeftine conveyance of fugar and paneles from the British colonies and plantations in America into Great Britain.

Cap. 59. To amend and render more effectual the laws relating to the raifing and training the militia within that part of Great Britain called England; and to establish certain regulations with respect to officers ferving in the corps of fencible men directed to be raised in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, and certain other corps therein mentioned.

Cap. 60. For relieving his Majefty's fubjects profeffing the popish religion from certain penalties and disabilities impoled on them by an act, made in the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of King William the Third, intituled, An act for the further preventing the growth of popery.

Cap. 61. For repealing certain provisions in two acts, made in the first year of the reign of Queen Anne; one intituled, An act for the relief of the proteftant purchasers of the forfeited eftates in Ireland; and the other intituled, An act for advancing the fale of the forfeited eftates in Ireland, and for vefting fuch as remain unfold by the prefent trustees in her Majesty, ber heirs and fucceffors, for fuch ufes as the fame were before vefted in the faid trustees; and for the more effectual felling and fetting the faid eftates to proteftants; and for explaining feveral acīs relative to the lord Bophin and fir Redmond Everard.

Cap. 62. To continue an act, made in the fixteenth year of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act to authorife, for a limiteà time, the punishment, by hard labour, of affenders who, for certain crimes, are or ball become liable to be transported to any of his Majefty's colonies and plantations.

Cap. 63. For enabling trustees under particular turnpike acts, to meet and carry fuch acts into execution, notwithstanding they may not have met or adjourned agreeable to the directions of fuch acts; and for preventing difputes touching the payment of tolls for horfes or carriages belonging to or employed by officers or foldiers on duty.

Cap. 64. For enabling his Majefty to raise the fum of one million, for the ufes and purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 65. For fettling and fecuring a certain annuity on the earl of Chatham, and the heirs of the body of the late William Pitt earl of Chatham, to whom the earldom of Chatham fhall defcend, in confideration of the eminent services performed by the faid late earl to his Majefty and the publick.

Cap. 66. For making proper drains and fewers, for the purpose of carrying off the water from the prebendal eftate of Halliwell and Finsbury, in the fuburbs of the city of London; and for other purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 67. For authorifing the juftices of the peace for the county of Middlefex, to fell the prefent feffion-house for the faid;

county, and for enabling them to build another feflion-house in a more convenient fituation, and to keep the fame in repair; and for applying the fum of eleven thousand pounds (to be borrowed upon the credit of the furpluffes of a certain fund, commonly called The Orphans Fund) towards defraying the expence of building the faid feffion-house.

Cap. 68. For building a bridge across the river Tawey, at a place called The Wich Tree, in the parish of Llanfamlett, to the oppofite fhore in the parish of Llangevelach, in the county of Glamorgan; for making proper avenues or roads to and from the faid bridge; and alfo for repairing and widening the road from Pentre-brook, near a place called Aberdwyberthy, in the parish of Saint John's, near Swanfea, to the faid intended bridge,

Cap. 69. For repairing the highways and bridges in the county of Stirling.

Cap. 70. To enable Hector Munro Efquire, to build and maintain a harbour and pier at the town of Findhorn, in the county of Elgin and Forres.

Cap. 71. For impowering the mayor, aldermen, and commons, of the city of London, in common council affembled, to make a street or opening from Moorfields, oppofite Chifwell-ftreet, towards the eaft into Bishopfgate-ftreet; and alfo from the east end of Chifwell-ftreet weftward into Barbican; and to raise, upon the credit of the furpluffes to arise out of á certain fund, commonly called The Orphans Fund, the fum of fixteen thousand five hundred pounds for fuch purpose.

Cap. 72. For erecting a building for holding the courts and exercifing the jurifdiction of the dean and chapter of the collegiate church of Saint Peter in Westminster, within the city and liberty of Westminster, and for holding the quarter feffions of the peace, and tranfacting the other publick business of the said city and liberty; and for appropriating part of the surplusses of the Orphans Fund, towards defraying the expence thereof.

Cap. 73. For paving the high street or road leading from Alderfgate-bars, in the parish of Saint Botolph without Alderfgate, London, to the turnpike near the end of Gofwell-freet, in the county of Middlefex; and for applying the fum of five thousand pounds, to be raised upon the credit of the furplusses to arise out of a certain fund, commonly called The Orphans Fund, for fuch purpose.

Cap. 74. To amend an act, paffed in the twenty-fixth year of King George the Second, more effectually to enable the parishioners of the parish of Christchurch, in the county of Middlesex, to purchase, hire, or erect a workhouse, for the employing and maintaining the poor of the faid parish, and for the more effectual fupport and employment of the poor therein.

Cap. 75. For making a navigable canal from the town of Bafingfloke, in the county of Southampton, to communicate with the river Wey, in the parish of Chertsey, in the county of Surrey ;

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and to the south-eaft fide of the turnpike road in the parish of Turgifs, in the faid county of Southampton.

Cap. 76. For better paving, cleaning, lighting, and watching, the streets and lanes in the town of Dover, in the county of Kent, and in the feveral parishes of Saint Mary the Virgin and Saint James the Apoftle in the faid town and county; and for removing and preventing nuifances and annoyances therein.

Cap. 77. For paving and repairing the ftreets, lanes, and other publick paffages and places, within fuch part of the liberty of Norton Falgate, in the county of Middlefex, as is extra-parochial; and certain parts of Magpie-alley, and Bloffom-freet, in the parish of Saint Leonard Shoreditch, in the faid county; and for removing obftructions and annoyances therein.

Cap. 78. For applying the fum of nine thousand pounds, to arife out of the furpluffes of a certain fund, commonly called The Orphans Fund, for the purpose of making a paffage for carriages from Spital-fields to Bishopfgate-fireet, in the county of Middlefex.

Cap. 79. For paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching, the town of Northampton; and for removing and preventing incroachments, obstructions, and annoyances therein.

Cap. 80. For widening and improving a certain avenue called Dirty-lane, and part of Brick-lane, leading from Whitechapel to Spital-fields, in the county of Middlefex; and for paving Dirtylane, and alfo the caft fide of Petticoat-lane, from Whitechapel High-freet to Wentworth-ftreet; the faid avenue called Wentworth-street; from thence in one continued line through Old Montague-freet, Chapel-ftreet, and Princes-row, to Baker's-row inclufive, and the feveral ftreets and paffages leading into the fame; and for removing all obftructions and encroachments therefrom, and preventing the like for the future.

Cap. 81. For continuing the terms and enlarging the powers of two acts, one paffed in the feventh and the other in the eighth years of his present Majefty's reign, for repairing and widening the roads from Oxford over Botley-causeway, to Fifield, in the county of Berks, and Witney, in the county of Oxford.

Cap. 82. To enlarge the term and powers of feveral acts passed in the fixth and twelfth years of King George the first, the twenty-eighth year of his late Majefty, and the ninth year of his present Majefty, for repairing the roads from Stevenage, in the county of Hertford, to Biggleswade, in the county of Bedford, and other roads therein mentioned.

Cap. 83. To enlarge the term and powers of an act, made in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of his late majefty King George the Second, for repairing the road leading from Long Horfley bar or gate, on the poft road near the town of Morpeth, by or through Long Horfley, Weldon-bridge, and Whittingham, to the river Breamith, and from thence to Percy's Crols, in the county of Northumberland.

Cap. 84.