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An act for repealing so much of an act of the 36th year of his present majesty, for the better relief of the poor within England; and enlarging the powers of the guardians of the poor, as limits the annual amount of the assessments.

An act to continue until the 1st day of January, 1814, an act for appointing commissioners to enquire and examine into the nature and extent of the several bogs in Ireland, and the practicability of draining and cultivating them, and the best means of effecting the same.

An act to provide for the more complete and effectual liquidation of a debt due to his majesty from the late Abraham Goldsmid, merchant, and his surviving partners; and to confirm and establish certain agreements entered into for that and other purposes relating thereto.

An act to amend several acts relating to the revenue of customs and port duties in Ireland.

An act for granting an additional drawback on flint, phial and crown glass; for charging an additional countervailing duty on flint and crown glass imported from Ireland; and for the better prevention of frauds in the exportation of glass on drawback.

An act to make better provision for the commissioners of appeal in revenue causes in Ireland.

An act to allow British plantation sugar and coffee, imported into Bermuda in British ships to be exported to the territories of the United States of America in foreign ships or vessels; and to permit articles, the production of the said United States, to be imported into the said island in foreign ships or vessels.

An act for extending the period in which deeds were directed to be enrolled by an act of the 50th year of

his present majesty, for amending several acts for the redemption and sale of the land-tax.

An act to amend an act made in the 49th year of his present majesty, for providing a durable allowance of superannuation to the officers of excise, under certain restrictions.

An act for transferring the Scotch excise charity and superannuation funds to the consolidated fund, and paying all future allowances from the latter fund, and for making provision for certain superannuated officers of excise in England and Scotland.

An act to revive and continue, until the 25th day of March, 1813, and amend so much of an act, made in the 39th and 40th year of his present majesty, as grants certain allowances to adjutants, and serjeant majors of the militia of England, disembodied under an act of the same session of parliament.

An act for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the militia in Great Britain, while disembodied.

An act for raising the sum of 22,500,000l. by way of annuities.

An act for raising the sum of 5,000,000l. by exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1812.

An act to repeal the several duties under the care of the commissioners for managing the stamp duties in Ireland, and to grant new duties in lieu thereof; and for transferring the management of the duties on playing cards and dice from the commissioners of inland excise to the commissioners of stamp duties.

An act for granting to his majesty certain additional rates of postage in Great Britain.

An act for charging an additional duty on copper imported into Great

Britain, until the expiration of six calendar months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace.

An act for raising the sum of 500,0001. by treasury bills for the service of Ireland, for the year 1812.

An act to continue until the 25th day of March, 1814, an act made in the parliament of Ireland, in the 27th year of his present majesty, for the better execution of the law, and preservation of the peace within counties at large.

An act to continue, until the 1st day of August, 1813, certain acts for appointing commissioners to enquire into the fees, gratuities, perquisites, and emoluments received in several public offices in Ireland; to examine into any abuses which may exist in the same, and into the mode of receiving, collecting, issuing, and accounting for public money in Ireland.

An act for granting to his majesty certain new and additional duties of assessed taxes; and for consolidating the same with the former duties of assessed taxes.

An act for granting to his majesty additional duties of excise in Great Britain, on glass, hides, and tobacco and snuff.

An act to amend and regulate the assessment and collection of the assessed taxes, and of the rates and duties on profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland.

An act for applying the amount of the bounties on certain linens exported from Great Britain towards defraying the charge of the loan made and stock created in the present session of parliament.

An act to amend several acts relating to the revenue of inland excise and taxes in Ireland.

An act to permit sugar, coffee, and cocoa to be exported from his majesty's colonies or plantations to any port in Europe to the southward of Cape Finisterre, and corn to be imported from any such port, and from the coast of Africa, into the said colonies and plantations, urder licenses granted by the collectors and controllers of the customs.

An act for allowing certain articles to be imported into the Bahama islands, and exported therefrom in foreign vessels; and for encouraging the exportation of salt from the said islands.

An act to permit the exportation of wares, goods, and merchandize, from any of his majesty's islands in the West Indies, to any other of the said islands, and to and from any of the British colonies on the continent of America, and the said islands and colonies.

An act to provide a summary remedy in cases of abuses of trusts created for charitable purposes.

An act for the registering and securing of charitable donations.

An act for the more easy manning of vessels employed in the southern whale fishery.

An act to render more effectual an act, passed in the 37th year of his present majesty, for preventing the administering or taking unlawful oaths.

An act to continue, amend, and extend the provisions of an act, passed in the 48th year of his present majesty, for enabling the secretary at war to enforce returns from clerks of subdivisions and others, in relation to fines, bounties, and sums due under any acts relating to the defence of the realm or militia, for the purpose of directing the distribution and securing the due application thereof.

An act for increasing the duty on rum and other spirits imported into Newfoundland from the British colonies and plantations on the continent of America, and charging a duty on spirits imported into Newfoundland from his majesty's colonies in the West Indies.

An act for extending the allowance of the duty on salt used in making oxigenated muriatic acid for bleach ing linen, to salt used in making such acid for bleaching thread and cotton twist.

An act to amend an act passed in the 50th year of his present majesty, for placing the duties of hawkers and pedlars under the management of the commissioners of hackney coaches.

An act to empower the commissioners of Chelsea hospital to commute pensions for a sum of money in

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An act to enable the commissioners of his majesty's treasury to issue exchequer bills, on the credit of such aids or supplies as have been or shall be granted by parliament for the service of Great Britain for the year 1812.

An act to make more effectual provision for enabling the corporation for preserving and improving the port of Dublin, to erect, repair, and maintain light houses and lights round the coasts of Ireland, and to raise a fund for defraying the charge thereof.

An act to amend an act of this session of parliament for amending the laws relating to the local militia of England.

An act for imposing additional duties of customs on certain species of wood, and on pot and pearl ashes imported into Great Britain.

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An act to amend an act made in the present session of parliament, entituled, An Act to revive and continue until the 31st day of December, 1812, so much of an act made in the 49th year of his present majesty, to prohibit the distillation of spirits from corn or grain, in the united kingdom, as relates to Great Britain; and to revive and continue another act made in the 49th year aforesaid, to suspend the importation of British or Irish made spirits into Great Britain or Ireland, respectively; and for granting certain duties on worts or wash made from sugar, during the prohibition of distillation from corn or grain in Great Britain.'

An act to repeal so much of an act of the 43d year of his present majesty, as permits the importation of goods and commodities from Turkey, Egypt, or the Levant seas, in foreign ships.

An act to explain, amend, and extend the provisions of an act, passed

in the last session of parliament, for enabling the wives and families of sol diers to return to their homes, to the widows, wives, and families of soldiers dying or employed on foreign service.

An act to authorise the transfer to the East Indies, of debts originally contracted there, on the part of the East India company, payable in England.

An act to remove doubts as to an act passed in the 50th year of the reign of his present majesty, relating to raising men for the service of the East India company.

An act for amending and enlarging the powers of an act passed in the 50th year of his present majesty, to enable his royal highness the Prince of Wales to grant leases of certain lands and premises called Prince's Meadows, in the parish of Lambeth, in the county of Surrey, parcel of his said royal highness's duchy of Cornwall, for the purpose of building thereon.

An act for vesting in his majesty, his heirs, and successors, certain lands or grounds, formerly part of the wastes of the manor of Sandhurst, in the county of Berks, freed and discharged of commonable and other rights.

An act for granting to his majesty a sum of money to be raised by lot. teries.

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An act to repeal the several acts for the collection and management of the stamp duties in Ireland, and to make more effectual regulations for collecting and managing the said du-. ties.

An act to prohibit until the 1st day of November, 1812, the making of starch, hair-powder, and blue, from wheat and other articles of food; and for suspending part of the duties

now payable on the importation into Great Britain of starch.

An act for better securing the duties on malt.

An act for amending two acts passed in the 48th and 49th years of his present majesty, for enabling the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt to grant life annuities.

An act for the more effectual punishment of persons destroying the properties of his majesty's subjects; and enabling the owners of such pro. perties to recover damages for the injury sustained.

An act to exempt from the duties of 1s. and of 6d. in the pound, certain augmentations made to the sti pends of parishes in Scotland.

An act for explaining, amending, and extending the several laws relative to the payment of forfeited and unclaimed shares of army prize money, to the royal hospital at Chelsea; and for directing the mode of making up the accounts of pensions, paid to the widows of officers of the army.

An act for taking an account of the population of Ireland, and of the increase or diminution thereof.

An act for the better regulation of the butter trade in Ireland.

An act for advancing 2,500,0001. to the East India Company, to enable them to discharge part of the Indian debt.

An act to enable the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to regulate the price of coals to be bought for the benefit of the poor of the city of Dublin.

An act for extending the time for the payment of certain sums of money, advanced by way of loan under an act, passed in the last session of parliament, for enabling his majesty to direct the issue of exchequer bills, to a limited amount, for the purposes and in the manner therein mentioned.

An act for the further prevention of the counterfeiting of silver tokens issued by the governor and company of the bank of England, called dollars, and of silver pieces issued and circulated by the said governor and company, called tokens; and for the further prevention of frauds practised by the imitation of the notes or bills of the said governor and company. An act for granting to his majesty certain duties on stone bottles made in or imported into Great Britain.

An act to permit the exportation of certain articles to the Isle of Man from Great Britain.

An act to regulate the manner of licensing boats by the commissioners of the customs, and the delivering up of licenses in cases of loss or capture of vessels licensed; and for enabling the commissioners of the customs to purchase certain boats at a valuation. An act to permit the removal of goods from one bonding warehouse to another, in the same port.

An act for amending and reducing into one act, the provisions contained in any laws now in force imposing the penalty of death for any act done in breach of or in resistance to any part of the laws for collecting his majesty's revenue in Great Britain.

An act to suspend and finally vacate the seats of members of the House of Commons, who shall be come bankrupts, and who shall not pay their debts in full within a limited time.

An act to explain the exemption from toll in several acts of parliament, for carriages employed in husbandry; and for regulating the tolls to be paid on other carriages, and on horses, in certain other cases therein specified.

An act for the better regulating and preserving parish and other regis. ters of births, baptisms, marriages, and burials in England.

An act for regulating the allowances granted out of the duties of assessed taxes, to persons in respect of the number of their children, by an act passed in the 46th year of his present majesty; and for extending thẹ limitation mentioned in the said act in proportion to the increase of the said duties.

An act to enable the keeper of his majesty's privy purse for the time being, to dispose of and transfer all such public stocks or funds, as now do or shall hereafter stand in his name, in the books of the governor and company of the bank of England, in trust for his majesty.

An act to regulate the separation of damaged from sound coffee, and to permit dealers to send out any quantity of coffee not exceeding eight pounds weight without permit, until the end of two years from the passing of this act.

An act to amend an act passed in the 44th year of his majesty's reign for granting stamp duties in Great Britain, so far as regards the duties granted on medicines and on licenses for vending the same.

An act to extend the provisions of an act of the last session of parliament, relating to the half-pay and allowance of officers retiring from service; and to authorise the allowing to foreign officers wounded the like pensions and allowances as are given to British officers under the like circumstances.

An act to repeal an act, passed in the 49th year of his present majesty, entituled, An Act for better regulating the office of agent general for volunteers and local militia,' and for the more effectually regulating the said office.

An act to rectify a mistake and to carry into more effectual execution the purposes of an act made in the

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