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Cap. 58. To explain and amend so 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 raising and training the militia within that part of Great Britain called England; and to eftablifh 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 Majesty's fubjects profeffing the popith religion from certain penalties and difabilities imposed 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 provifions in two acts, made in the first year of the reign of Queen Anne; one intituled, An act for the relief of the proteftant purchafers 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 present trustees in her Majefty, 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 proteflants; and for explaining feveral als 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 limited time, the punishment, by hard labour, of affenders who, for certain crimes, are or fhall 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 tolis 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 fervices performed by the faid late earl to his Majefty and the publick.

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

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

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county, and for enabling them to build another feffion-house in a more convenient fituation, and to keep the fame in repair; and for applying the fum of eleven thousand pounds (to be bor rowed 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.

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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 thore in the parish of Llangevelach, in the county of Glamorgan; for making proper avenues or roads to and from the said 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 Swansea, to the faid intended bridge.

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

Cap. 70. To enable Hector Munro Esquire, 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 east into Bishopsgate-fireet; and alfo from the east. end of Chifwell-ftreet weftward into Barbican; and to raife, upon the credit of the furpluffes to arife out of a 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 exercising the jurisdiction 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 furpluffes 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 thoufand pounds, to be raised upon the credit of the furpluffes 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 coun y of Middlesex, to purchase, hire, or erect a workhouse, for the employing and maintaining the poor of the said parish, and for the more effectual fupport and employment of the poor therein.

Cap. 75. For making a navigable canal from the town of Basingstoke, 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 fouth-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 Apostle in the faid town and county; and for removing and preventing nuifances and annoyances

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Cap. 77. For paving and repairing the streets, lanes, and other publick paffages and places, within fuch part of the liberty of Norton Fulgate, in the county of Middlefex, as is extra-parochial; and certain parts of Magpie-alley, and Blossom-street, 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, obftructions, 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 DirtyJane, and alfo the caft fide of Petticoat-lane, from Whitechapel High-Street to Wentworth-street; the faid avenue called Wentworth-street; from thence in one continued line through Old Montague-freet, Chapel-fireet, 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 prefent Majefty's reign, for repairing and widening the roads from Oxford over Botley-cauferway, to Fifield, in the county of Berks, and Vitney, in the county of Oxford.

Cap. 82. To enlarge the term and powers of several acts paffed 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 prefent 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 Cross, in the county of Northumberland.

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Cap. 84. To enlarge the term and powers of several acts for repairing the road from Highgate Gatehoufe, in the county of Middlefex, to Barnet Blockhouse, in the county of Hertford; and the road from the Bear-inn in Hadley to the Angel in Enfieldchace; and alfo Canewood-lane leading from Highgate to Hampftead, in the faid county of Middlefex; and the road beginning at Barnet Blockhouse and ending at the Bear-inn in Hadley aforeTaid.

Cap. 85. For continuing the term, and altering and enlarging the powers, of an act, made in the thirty-fecond year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, for repairing the road from Wakefield to Aufterlands, in the weft riding in the county of York.

Cap. 86. To enlarge the term and powers of an act, paffed in the thirty-third year of King George the Second, for repairing and widening the road from The Bars at Boughton, within the liberties of the city of Chester, to Whitchurch, and from thence to Newport, in the county of Salop, and other roads in the faid act mentioned; and for making a road of communication from the faid road between Whitchurch and Newport, to the prefent turnpike road from Newport aforefaid to Eccleshall, in the county of Stafford.

Cap. 87. To enlarge the term of an act paffed in the thirtieth year of his late majesty King George the Second, for repairing and widening the road from Towcester, through Silverfton and Brackley, in the county of Northampton, and Ardley, and Middleton Stoney, to Weston-gate, in the parish of Weston on the Green, in the county of Oxford.

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Cap. 88. For repairing and widening the road from The Birches Brook to Buildwas-bridge, and from thence to join the Watling-street turnpike road at Tern-bridge, in the county of Salop.

Cap. 89. For enlarging the term and powers of an act, made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, for amending, widening, and keeping in repair, feveral roads leading from the market-house in the town of Much Wenlock, in the county of Salop, and for amending, widening, and keeping in repair, the road leading from Gleeton-hill to Creffage, in the faid county.

Cap. 90. To enlarge the term and powers of three acts, of the third and feventeenth years of the reign of King George the Second, and the tenth year of the reign of his present Majefty, for repairing the road leading from Galley-corner, adjoining to Enfield-chace, in the parish of South Mims, in the county of Middlefex, to Lemsford-mill, in the county of Hertford.

Cap. 91. For repairing and widening the road from Stokenchurch, in the county of Oxford, to Wheatley-bridge, and from the faid bridge to Enflow-bridge, and from Wheatley-bridge to the mileway leading towards Magdalen-bridge; and from the mileway leading from Saint Giles's Church, near the city of Oxford, by Begbroke, to New Woodstock, in the faid county.

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Cap. 92. For continuing the term and altering and enlarging the powers of an act, made in the twenty-fixth year of the reign of his late Majesty, for widening and repairing the high road leading from Northallerton to the fouth wall of the church-yard of the town of Thirfk, and from the fouth-east end of the street called Finkell-freet, in Thirsk aforefaid, to and through the town of Eafingwould, in the county of York, to a place called Burton-ftone, near the city of York; and also the road from Thirsk aforesaid to Topcliffe, in the north riding of the county of York.

Cap. 93. For repealing certain parts of three several acts of parliament, of the first, the feventeenth, and the thirtieth years of the reign of his late majefty King George the Second, made for repairing feveral roads leading to and from the borough of Evesham, in the county of Worcester; and for repairing and widening the road from Evesham-bridge, in the said borough, to the Globe Inn in Alcefter, in the county of Warwick.

Cap. 94. For enlarging the term and powers of an act, made in the thirtieth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, for amending, widening, and keeping in repair, the roads from the east end of the town of Hertford, in the county of Hertford, through Watton, to Broadwater, and from the town of Ware, through Watton, to the north end of the town of Walkern, in the faid county.

Cap. 95. For amending, widening, turning, altering, and keeping in repair, the roads from Whistle-bridge, in the parish of Barwick, in the county of Somerset, to the turnpike road in the parish of Charminster, in the county of Dorfet; and from the crofs in the town of Maiden Newton, to a ftream of water in the parish of South Perrott, in the county of Dorfet; and from a place called Furze-moor Gate, in the parish of Broadwinfor, to Lenham's Water, in the parish of Beamister; and from Bugler's corner in the town of Beamifter, to the Dorfetfbire Inn, in the parish of Woolcombe; and from Upfydling Ewe Leaze, to the town of Cerne Abbas; and from the town of Frampton, to join the western turnpike road near Steepleton, in the faid county of Dorfet.

Cap. 96. For continuing the term and altering and enlarging the powers of an act, made in the thirty-fecond year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, for repairing and widening the road leading from the eaft fide of Barnfley Common, in the county of York, to the middle of Grange Moor, and from thence to White Crofs; and alfo the road from the guidepoft in Barugh to a rivulet called Barugh Brook, and from thence for two hundred yards over and beyond the fame rivulet or brook into the township of Cawthorne, in the faid county.

Cap. 97. For more effectually amending, widening, and keeping in repair, feveral roads leading from the town of Taunton, in the county of Somerfet; and for repealing two acts, one of the twenty-fifth year of his late Majefty, and the other of the fifth year of his prefent Majefty, relating to the faid roads;

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