tlement of John Yate gent. and for 17. An act for exchanging the tithes 21. An act for vefting certain copy- 22. An act for fale of two undivided third parts of the manor of Weeton and other lands in Holderness, part of the settled eftate of Thomas Rand; and for applying the money arifing by fuch fale in the purchase of an entire estate to be fettled to the fame ufes. 23. An act for vefting the real and 25. An act for fettling certain lands 27. An act for vefting several fums of 28. An act for fale of part of the estate of Valentine Brown efq; commonly called lord Kenmare, in the kingdom of Ireland, for payment of debts and incumbrances affecting the fame. 29. An act to enable Thomas, now lord Southwell, and his truftees, to raise money, by making leafes for lives, renewable for ever, and fee-farms, and by sale or mortgage of certain lands and hereditaments in the county of Limerick, in the kingdom of Ireland, for payment of debts and 2 lega legacies, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 30. An act for vefting certain manors, lands, and hereditaments in the kingdom of Ireland, the estate of fir Redmond Everard bart. in trustees, to be fold for raifing money to difcharge incumbrances affecting the fame, and for other purposes. 31. An act to enable Mary O' Gara, widow, to fue for her jointure lands. 32. An act for vefting in trustees a meffuage and garden in the parish of St. Katharine Coleman, London, the estate of Robert Thornton, and Hannah his wife, to be fold, on fettling an estate of a greater value to the fame uses. 33. An act for confirming a fale made by Anthony Palmer, to Lewis Buckle, efq; of certain copyhold lands and hereditaments, parcel of the manor of East Meon, in the county of Southampton, and for fettling other copyhold lands and hereditaments, part of the fame manor, of as great or greater value, to the fame ufes as the faid lands fo fold now stand limited. 34. An act for fale of part of the estate of William Kinafton, efq; and for fettling other part thereof to the uses therein mentioned. 35. An act to enable Daniel Dunne, efq; by fale or mortgage of part of his eftate, to raise money to pay off and difcharge the portions of his brothers and sister, and a mortgage of one thousandeight hundred feventy seven pounds affecting the fame. 36. An act for vefting feveral quantities and parcels of South-Sea stock, and South-Sea annuities, in trustees, for payment of the debts of Charles Lowndes, gent. and for the benefit and relief of him, and Rebecca his wife. Anno I Georgii II. ftat. 1. Cap. 1. For the better fupport of his Majefty's houfhold, and of the honour and dignity of the crown of Great Britain. Cap. 2. To enable his Majesty to be governor of the South-Sea company. Cap. 3. For enabling his Majefty to settle a revenue for fupporting the royal dignity of the Queen, in case she shall survive his Majefty. Cap. 4. For continuing the imprisonment of Robert Blackburn, and others, for the horrid conspiracy to affaffinate the person of his late sacred majesty King William the Third, of glorious memory. Cap. 5. For making further provifions to enable perfons poffeffed of offices at the demise of his late Majefty, to qualify themselves for the enjoyment of fuch offices, and for altering and explaining the acts of parliament therein mentioned, in relation to qualifying perfons for continuing in offices; and for the continuance of the sheriffs of the county of Cornwall, and county palatine of Chefter, and feveral other officers therein mentioned, after the demife of his late Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors; and for continuing fuch laws as would expire at the end of this feffion of parliament. Anno 1 Georgii II. ftat. 2. Cap. 1. For continuing the duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry, in that part of Great Britain called England; and for granting to his Majefty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder and perry, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, for the service of the year 1728. and for making good the deficiency of a late malt act. Cap. 2. For punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. Cap. 3. For making more effectual an act paffed in the fourth year of the reign of his late majefty King George, intituled, An att for repair b 4 ing ing the highways from Maidenhead Bridge to Sunning-Lane-End, next to Twyford, in the road to Reading; and from the faid bridge to Henley Bridge in the county of Berks. Cap. 4. For repairing the road leading from Chatteris Ferry, which divides the isle of Ely from the county of Huntingdon, to Hammond's Eau, and from thence toSomer sham Bridge, at Somersham town's end, in the faid county. Cap. 5. For granting an aid to his Majefty by a land tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year 1728. Cap. 6. For repairing the road from the Powder-Mills on HounslowHeath, in the county of Middlesex, to a place called Bafingftone, near the town of Bagshot, in the parish of Windlesham, in the county of Surrey. Cap. 7. For enlarging the term grant ed by an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of her late majesty Queen Anne, for repairing the highways between the Bear-Inn in Reading, and Puntfield in the county of Berks, and for making the faid act more effectual, and for amending other roads in this act mentioned. Cap. 8. For granting an aid to his Majefty's by fale of annuities to the bank of England, at four pounds per centum, redeemable by parliament, and charged upon the duties on coals and culm; and for further applying the produce of the finking fund; and for enlarging the time for exchanging Nevis and St. Chri ftopher's debentures for annuities at three per centum, and for applying the arrears of his late Majefty's civil lift revenues. Cap. 9. For granting an aid to his Majefty of five hundred thoufand pounds, towards difcharging wages, due to feamen, and for the conftant, regular, and punctual payment of feamens wages for the future; and for appropriating the fupplies grant→ 6 ed in this present feffion of parliament; and for difpofing of the furplus of the money granted for half. pay for the year 1727. Cap. 10. For the more effectual amending the highway between Hockliffe and Woburn, in the county of Bedford; and for repairing the road leading through Woburn to Tickford Bridge in Newport Pagnell, in the county of Bucks. Cap. 11. For repairing and amending feveral roads leading to and from the borough of Evesham, in the county of Worcester. Cap. 12. For repairing and enlarging the road leading from the house called the fign of the Bells, in the parish of St. Margaret in Rochefter, to Maidstone, and other roads therein mentioned, in the county of Kent. Cap. 13. To oblige fhips coming from places infected, more effectually to perform their quarentine; and for the better preventing the plague ' being brought from foreign parts into Great Britain or Ireland, or the ifles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark or Man; and to hinder the spreading of infection. Cap. 14. For encouraging feamen to enter into his Majefty's fervice. Cap. 15. For making provision for the rector of the new church, fituate near Millbank, in the parish of St. Margaret Westminster, and for other purposes therein mentioned. Cap. 16. For removing doubts concerning the additional duty of two pence per gallon upon low wines, and fpirits of the first extraction, from foreign materials; and for obviating queftions relating to appeals in matters of excife; and for appointing the number of commif fioners of excife, who may hear causes depending before them. Cap. 17. For repealing the present duties on wine lees, and Lignum Vite, and laying new duties on wine wine lees; and for prohibiting the importation of wine in flasks, bottles, or small cafks; and for preventing frauds in exporting filk manufactures; and for fupplying the want of regular certificates of fuch manufactures being landed in foreign parts, where fuch certificates cannot be had; and for giving further time to clerks and apprentices, to pay duties omitted to be paid for their indentures and contracts. Cap. 18. To explain and amend an act made in the twelfth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the First, for building a bridge cross the river of Thames, from the town of Fulham in the county of Middlefex, to the town of Putney in the county of Surrey; and for making the said act more effectual. Cap. 19. For punishing such persons as fhall wilfully and maliciously pull down or destroy turnpikes for reparing highways, or locks, or other works, erected by authority of parliament, for making rivers navigable. Cap. 20. For erecting a workhouse in the city of Canterbury, for employing and maintaining the poor there, and for better enlightning the streets of the said city. Cap. 21. To explain and amend an ment of such money, as hath been, or fhall be contributed towards a charitable fund for relief of such as shall suffer by fire in the said city, and the suburbs and liberties thereof. Cap. 23. For indemnifying perfons who have omitted to qualify themfelves for offices and employments within the time limited by law, and for allowing further time for that purpofe; and for repealing fo much of two acts of parliament therein mentioned, as requires perfons to qualify themselves to continue in offices or employments for the space of fix months, after the demise of his Majesty, his heirs or fucceffors. Private Acts. Anno 1 Georgii II. 1. An act to enable Robert Ellison efq; and the heirs and issue of his body, to take and use the furname of Carre, according to the will of his uncle Francis Carre, efq; deceased. 2. An act for naturalizing Abraham Weffelow. 3. An act for naturalizing Adam Oldenburg, Phillipe Dumouftier, and others. 4. An act to settle a jointure on Sufanna countess of Shaftsbury, wife of Anthony earl of Shaftsbury, in lieu and bar of her dower or thirds at the common law. act paffed in the thirteenth year of Cap. 22. To explain the acts of the 6. An act to enable the guardians of the lord George Bentincke, fecond fon of Henry late duke of Portland, to make leafes of certain houses, grounds, and tenements in Soho, during the minority of the said lord George, for making provifion for his maintenance, and for other purposes therein mentioned. An act for confirming the partitions of the estates late of fir William Davie baronet, deceased, among his co-heirs, and for fettling their shares thereof in feveralty to the fame uses ufes to which their feveral undivided parts thereof ftood limited before the partition. 7. An act for vefting the eftate of William Bromley efq; and Mary his wife, lying at Sundon in the county of Bedford, in trustees, to be fold pursuant to an agreement in their marriage-fettlement. 8. An act to enable Chriftopher Crowe of Woodford-Hall, in the county of Effex, efq; to fell or otherwife difpofe of the manfion-house called. Woodford-Hall, and all other his lands and hereditaments at Woodford, comprized in his fettlement thereof, he having fettled other lands and hereditaments in the county of York, of greater value, to the fame uses in lieu thereof. 9. An act to enable the guardians of Anna Elizabetha Bealing, an infant about four years old, appointed by this act, to grant building leafes of her fourth part and fhare of and in certain meffuages, grounds, and hereditaments, in or near the parish of St. Andrew Holbourn, in the county of Middlesex. 10. An act for vefting the manors of Shirfield, and divers lands and hereditaments in the county of Southampton, the estate of Granville Weler efq; in trustees, difcharged of the ufes in a former fettlement, he having fettled an estate in the coun`ty of Kent to the fame uses in lieu thereof. 11. An act to enable Thomas Brown, gent. to grant building leafes of his eftate in the town of Manchester, in the county of Lancaster. 12. An act for appointing commiffioners to make a divifion of certain common fields, lands, and wastes in the parish of Cherrington, in the county of Gloucester, among the proprietors, in order to inclofe the fame. 13. An act for naturalizing John La nove. 14. An act for enabling Charles duke of Grafton, lord of the manor of Grafton, in the county of Northampton, to inclose the common fields and wafte grounds within the faid manor in pursuance of several agreements between the faid duke, and the rector and churchwardens of the parish of Grafton Regis, and to establish the faid agreements. 15. An act for vefting in trustees, divers lands in the feveral counties of Berks, Bucks, Wilts, Oxford and York, the estate of David earl of Buchan, for the purposes therein mentioned. 16. An act to enable the commiffioners of the treasury, or the lord high treasurer for the time being, to compound with George Townsend, Montague Bacon, John Atwood and John Burton, late commiffioners for licensing hawkers, pedlars and petty chapmen, for a debt they ftand charged with to the crown. 17. An act to enable the commiffioners of the treasury, or the lord high treasurer for the time being, to compound with Thomas Hammond, late of London, merchant, and his fureties, for a debt due to the crown for customs on tobacco and wines. 18. An act for vefting the eftate of fir Halfwell Tynte, bart. and dame Mary his wife (in right of dame. Mary) in trustees, to be fettled to the uses in their marriage articles. 19. An act for vefting the estate late of fir John Wittewronge, bart. deceased, in the county of Bucks, in trustees, to enable them to convey the fame to the most noble Sarah duchefs dowager of Marlborough, the purchaser thereof, under a decree of the high court of chancery. 20. An act for impowering the honourable Charles Howard efq; to raise money by fale or mortgage of the manors of Walden, alias Chipping Walden, Brook Walden, and other manors and lands therein men |