Paffed Anno decimo o&tavo GEORGII III. Regis. Being the Fourth Seffion of the Fourteenth Parliament of PUBLICK ACTS. Cap. I. OR continuing an act, made in the laft feffion of parliament, intituled, An act to impower his Majefly to fecure and detain perfons charged with, or fufpected of, the crime of high treafon, committed in any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America, or on the high feas, or the crime of piracy. Cap. 2. For granting an aid to his Majefty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the service of the year one thou sand seven hundred and feventy-eight. Cap. 3. For continuing and granting to his Majefty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and feventy-eight. Cap. 4. For punishing mutiny and defertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. Cap. 5. For the regulation of his Majefty's marine forces while on fhore. Cap. 6. For the better fupply of mariners and feamen to ferve in his Majesty's fhips of war, and on board merchant ships and other trading hips and veffels. VOL. XXXII. Cap. Cap. 7. For repairing the highways and bridges in the county of Wigton. Cap. 8. To enable his Majefty to licence a theatre in the city of Bristol. Cap. 9. For taking down the parish church of Lilford, being a vicarage united to the rectory of church, in the county of Northampton; and for repairing the parish church of Achurch aforefaid; and for other purposes therein mentioned. Cap. 10. To continue and enlarge the term and powers of an act, made in the thirtieth year of the reign of King George the Second, for building a bridge over the river Lea, at or near a place called Jeremy's Ferry; and for making, repairing, widening roads from thence into the great roads at Snarcfbrook, in the county of Effex, and at Clapton, in the county of Middlesex. Cap. 11. For repealing an act, paffed in the fourteenth year of his prefent Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the better regulating the government of the province of the Massachuset's Bay in New England. Cap. 12. For removing all doubts and apprehenfions concerning taxation by the parliament of Great Britain in any of the colonies, provinces, and plantations in North America, and the Weft Indies; and for repealing fo much of an act, made in the feventh year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, as imposes a duty on tea imported from Great Britain into any colony or plantation in America, or relates thereto. Cap. 13. To enable his Majesty to appoint commiffioners with fufficient powers to treat, confult, and agree upon the means of quieting the diforders now fubfifting in certain of the colonies, plantations, and provinces of North America. Cap. 14. For defraying the charge of the pay and cloathing of the militia in that part of Great Britain called England, for one year, beginning the twenty-fifth day of March, one thoufand feven hundred and feventy-eight; and for filling up vacancies in the militia, in the cafes therein mentioned. Cap. 15. For the relief of the captors of prizes, with respect to the bringing and landing certain prize goods in this kingdom. Cap. 16. For allowing the exportation of certain quantities of wheat-flour, bifcuit, and pease, to Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Bay Chaleur, and Labrador. Cap. 17. For building an additional jail, and also a prifon and houfe of correction, within the county of Cornwall; and for other purposes therein mentioned. Cap. 18. To explain an act, paffed in the seventh year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An all for the more effectual preventing the forging the acceptance of bilis of exchange; or the numbers or principal fums of accountable receipts for notes, bills, or other fecurities for payment of money; or warrants or orders for payment of money or delivery of goods. Cap. 19. For the payment of cofts to parties, on complaints deter determined before juftices of the peace out of feffions; for the payment of the charges of conftables in certain cafes; and for the more effectual payment of charges to witneffes and profecutors of any larceny, or other felony. Cap. 20. For further continuing the duties granted by three acts, made in the fifth and twenty-fifth years of his late majefty King George the Second, and in the third year of his prefent Majefty's reign, for enlarging the pier and harbour of Scarborough, in the county of York. Cap. 21. For the more effectually carrying into execution the powers contained in two feveral acts of parliament, the one made in the twelfth year of his prefent Majefty's reign, for making a navigable cut or canal from the river Dee, within the liberties of the city of Chefter, to or near Middlewich and Nantwich, in the county of Chefter; and the other made in the seventeenth year of his faid Majefty's reign, for varying and enlarging the powers of the faid former act. Cap. 22. For raifing a certain fum of money by way of annuities, and for establishing a lottery. Cap. 23. 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 feven hundred and feventyeight, together with those named in two former acts for appointing commiffioners of the land tax. Cap. 24. For allowing the re-importation of unmanufactured tobacco from foreign parts, although the fame may have been fold abroad; and the importation of tobacco the growth and product of the island of Dominica, under certain regulations and reftrictions. Cap. 25. For allowing corn, grain, and flour, imported into the ports of Portsmouth, Sandwich, Chichester, and Chefter, to be landed without payment of the duties, under the like reftrictions as corn, grain, and flour, is allowed to be landed at the several ports mentioned in an act, made in the thirteenth year of the reign of his present Majefty, intituled, An act to regulate the importation and exportation of corn. Cap. 26. For granting to his Majefty certain duties upon all inhabited houses within the kingdom of Great Britain. Cap. 27. For granting to his Majefty feveral additional duties upon wines and vinegar imported into this kingdom. Cap. 28. For repealing fo much of an act, made in the thirteenth year of his prefent Majesty's reign, intituled, An act to explain, amend, and reduce into one act of parliament, the general laws now in being for regulating the turnpike roads in that part of Great Britain called England, and for other purposes; as is to fubject carriages, having the fellies of the wheels thereof of lefs breadth or gauge than fix inches, to the payment of double tolls; and for vacating contracts for leafing tolls. Cap. 29. For impowering the commiffioners and governors of the royal hofpital for feamen at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, to exchange certain meffuages, lands, tenements, tithes, and hereditaments, belonging to them in the parishes of Alnwick, Embleton, and IVarkworth, in the county of Northumberland, for other lands belonging to the most noble Hugh duke of Northumberland, in fome one or more of the open common fields at Corbridge, in the faid county; and to impower the faid commiffioners and governors to grant leases, in manner therein mentioned. Cap. 30. For the more effectually levying of the duty upon fervants in that part of Great Britain called Scotland. Cap. 31. For enabling his Majefty to fettle on their royal higneffes the princes Frederick bishop of Ofnaburgh, William Henry, Edward, Erneft Auguftus, Auguftus Frederick, and Adolphus Frederick, an annuity of fixty thousand pounds per annum; and alfo to fettle on their royal highneffes the princeffes Charlotte Augufta Matilda, Augufta Sophia, Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia, one other annuity of thirty thousand pounds per annum; and alfo to fettle on his highness prince William Frederick one other annuity of eight thousand pounds per annum, and on her highnefs the princefs Sophia Matilda one other annuity of four thou fand pounds per annum. Cap. 32. For further continuing so much of certain duties as have by feveral acts of parliament been granted and continued for repairing and maintaining the harbours of Dover and Rye, as are applicable to completing and keeping in repair the faid harbour of Rye, in the county of Suflex. Cap. 33. For the better prefervation of fifh, and regulating the fisheries, in the rivers Severn and Verniew. Cap. 34. For the more eafy and speedy recovery of fmall debts, within the foake of Bolingbroke and wapentake of Candleshoe, in the parts of Lindfey, in the county of Lincoln. Cap. 35. For the better relief and employment of the poor within the hundred of Stow, in the county of Suffolk. Cap. 36. For the more eafy and speedy recovery of small debts, within the isle of Ely, in the county of Cambridge. Cap. 37. For paving parts of the footpaths on the fides of the great road, called Whitechapel Road, in the county of Middlesex; and alfo the feveral ftreets, lanes, roads, and paffages, opening into the fame; and for preventing obftructions, nuifances, and annoyances therein, and near thereto. Cap. 38. For raifing a certain fum of money by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and feventy-eight. Cap. 39. To indemnify fuch perfons as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments; and to indemnify juftices of the peace, or others, who have omitted to register or deliver in their qualifications within the time limited by law, and for giving further time for thofe purposes; and to indemnify members and officers, in cities, corporations, and borongh towns, |