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 Snarefbrook, in the county of Elex, and at Clapton, in the county of Middlefex.

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 Maffachuset'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 impofes a duty on tea imported from Great Britain into any colony or plantation in America, or relates thereto.

Cap. 13. To enable his Majefty to appoint commiffioners with fufficient powers to treat, confult, and agree upon the means of quieting the disorders 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 respec to the bringing and landing certain prize goods in this king

dom.

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 prison and house 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 majefty King George the Second, intituled, An act for the more effectual preventing the forging the acceptance of bills of exchange; or the numbers or principal Jums 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

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determined before juftices of the peace out of feflions; for the payment of the charges of constables 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 feventeenth year of his faid Majefty's reign, for varying and enlarging the powers of the said 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 Majefly by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and feventysight, together with thofe 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 Chefer, to be landed without payment of the duties, under the like reftrictions as corn, grain, and flour, is allowed to be landed at the feveral 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 Majefty'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 purpofes; 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 hospital for seamen 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 Warkworth, in the county of Northumber land, 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 said 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 Majesty to fettle on their royal higneffes the princes Frederick bishop of Ofnaburgh, William Henry, Edward, Erneft Augustus, Auguftus Frederick, and Adolphus Frederick, an annuity of fixty thousand pounds per annum; and also to settle 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 also to settle on his highness prince William Frederick one other annuity of eight thousand pounds per annum, and on her highness the princess Sophia Matilda one other annuity of four thoufand 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 Suffex.

Cap. 33. For the better prefervation of fish, and regulating the fisheries, in the rivers Severn and Verniew.

Cap. 34. For the more easy and speedy recovery of small debts, within the foake of Bolingbroke and wapentake of Candleshoe, in the parts of Lindsey, 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 fmall debts, within the ifle 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 also the several streets, 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 fervice 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 borough

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

Cap. 40. To repeal such part of an act, made in the last sesfion of parliament, as relates to the manner of discharging 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 Irish fhips, failing from any of his Majesty'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 school founded in the fame 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 House 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 last feffion of parliament, for the recovery of fmall debts, within the feveral parishes of Surfleet, Gosberton, 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 stone 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 British 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 Majesty'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 disguised, 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 fhips and veffels from Dover, Deal, and Isle of Thanet; and to revive and continue so much of an act, made in the fixteenth year of his present Majesty'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 proteftant 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 raife, 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 Nerogate, 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 eafy and better recruiting of his Majesty'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 feventy-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 sevenths 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 manufacture of Ireland, into this kingdom duty-free.

Cap. 57. For railing 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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