The following public Bills received the Royal Assent in the Course of the 4th Session of the 2d Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, commencing on the 21st day of Jan. 1806. February 7th, 1806. An act to empower the auditor of the exchequer to constitute a trustee for the execution of the said office in the case therein mentioned. February 12. An act for continuing and granting to his majesty certain duties upon malt in Great Britain, for the service of the year 1806. An act for continuing and granting to his majesty a duty on pensions, offices, and personal estates, in England; and certain duties on sugar, malt, tobacco, and snuff, in Great Britain, for the service of the year 1806. February 28. An act to enable his majesty to grant a certain annuity to lady viscountess Nelson, in consideration of the eminent services performed by the late vice-admiral lord viscount Nelson to his majesty and the public. An act to enable his majesty to grant a certain annuity to rearadmiral sir Richard Strachan, bart. in consideration of the eminent services which he has rendered to his majesty and the public. An act for raising the sum of five millions by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1806. VOL. XLVIII. March 22. An act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom, as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments; and for extending the times limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th day of December, 1806, and to permit such persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the first day of Michaelmas Term, 1806. An act for the regulation of his majesty's royal marine forces while on shore. An act for allowing, until the signature of preliminary articles of peace, vessels employed in the Greenland whale fishery, to complete their full number of men at certain ports. An act for further continuing until the 25th day of March, 1807, an act passed in the 43d year of his present majesty, for discontinuing certain drawbacks and bounties on the exportation of sugar from Great Britain, and for allowing other drawbacks and bounties in lieu thereof. An act for allowing the exportation of corn and other articles for the use of his majesty's forces and garrisons. An act to continue several acts for granting certain rates and duties, and allowing certain drawbacks and bounties, on goods, wares, and merchandize imported into and exported from Ireland; and for grant.. ing a duty upon malt and spirits made and distilled in Ireland, until the 29th day of September, 1806; and for granting certain inland duties Tt of of excise and taxes in Ireland, until tia in Great Britain, for the year the 25th day of March, 1807. Au act for settling and securing certain annuities on Cuthbert, lord Collingwood, and the several other persons therein described, in consideration of the signal and important service performed by the said Cuthbert lord Collingwood to his majesty and the public. An act to continue until the 25th day of March, 1807, and to amend several acts for regulating the drawbacks and bounties on the exportation of sugar from Ireland. An act for punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters, within the United Kingdom, and the islands of Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, and Man. An act to continue until the 1st day of June, 1807, and amend an act passed in the 37th year of his present majesty, for carrying into execution the treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation, between his majesty and the United States of America. An act to permit, until the 25th day of March, 1809, the exportation to the United Kingdom, of wool from the British plantations in America. An act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1807, the operation of an act, passed in the last session of parliament, to suspend proceedings in actions, prosecutions, and proceedings, under certain acts relating to the woollen manufacture, and also under an act of queen Elizabeth, so far as the same relates to certain persons employed or concerned in the said manufacture. An act for defraying the charge of the pay and cloathing of the mili. 1806. An act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1807, and amend so much of an act made in the 39th and 40th years of his present majesty, as grants certain allowances to adjutants and serjeant-majors of the militia of England, disembodied under 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 defraying, until the 25th day of March, 1807, the charge of the pay and cloathing of the militia of Ireland; for holding courts martial on serjeant-majors, serjeants, corporals, and drummers, for offences committed during the time such militia shall not be embodied; and for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the said militia during peace. An act to extend the provisions of an act passed in the 44th year of the reign of his present majesty, for enabling subjects of foreign states to enlist as soldiers in his majesty's service, and to indemnify those who have advised his majesty to land such soldiers in this kingdom. An act for further continuing, until the 25th day of March, 1808, an act made in the 33d year of the reign of his present majesty, for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland. March 31. An act for raising the sum of ten millions five hundred thousand pounds, by loans or exchequer bills, for for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1806. An act for raising the sum of one million fivehundred thousand pounds, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain for the year 1806. An act for continuing, until the 25th day of March, 1811, so much of an act made in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of his late majesty, as relates to the landing of rum or spirits of the British sugar plantations, before payment of the duties of excise. An act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1813, several laws relating to the transportation of felons and other offenders, to temporary places of confinement in England and Scotland. April 2. An act for reviving and continuing several laws of customs relating to the establishing courts of judicature in the island of Newfoundland; and to the prohibiting the exportation from, and permitting the importation to Great Britain, of corn; and for allowing the importation of other articles of provision, without payment of duty, until the 25th day of March, 1809; and for continuing several laws relating to the granting a bounty upon certain species of British and Irish linens, exported from Great Britain, and taking off the duties on importation into Great Britain, of foreign raw linen yarns made of flax; to the granting a bounty upon the importation into Great Britain of hemp, and rough and undressed flax, from his majesty's colonies in America; and to the encouragement of the Greenland whale fisheries; and for reviving and continuing seve ral laws relating to the regu lating the prices at which corn and grain may be exported from Great Britain to Ireland, and from Ireland to Great Britain; and to the admission to entry in Great Britain, of oil and blubber of New foundland, taken by his majesty's subjects carrying on the fishery from, and residing in the said island; and for continuing an act of the twenty-third year of his present majesty, for the more effectual encouragement of the manufactures of flax and cotton in Great Britain; and for reviving and continuing several laws relating to the permitting the importation into Great Britain, of hides and other articles in foreign ships; and to the prohibiting the exportation from Ireland, of corn or potatoes, or other provi sions; and to the permitting the importation into Ireland of corn, fish, and provisions, without payment of duty, until the 25th day of March, 1808; and for reviving and continuing an act passed in the parlia ment of Ireland, in the 25th year of his present majesty, for the encouragement of the flaxen and hempen manufactures of Ireland, until the 25th day of March, 1827; and for amending and further continuing an act made in the 7th year of his present majesty, for the free importation into Great Britain of cochineal and indigo, until the 25th day of March, 1809. April 21. An act to authorize his majesty, until the 25th day of March, 1807, to make regulations respecting the trade and commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope. An act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1807, an act made in the forty-fourth year of his preTt2 senf sent majesty, for empowering his majesty to accept the services of such parts of his militia forces in Ireland, as might voluntarily offer themselves to be employed in Great Britain. An act to enable the commissioners of his majesty's treasury of Ireland, to issue treasury bills on the credit of such aids or supplies as have been or shall be granted by parliament, for the service of Ireland, for the year 1806; and for making forth duplicates of treasury bills lost or destroyed. An act for raising the sum of twenty millions by way of annuities. An act for further continuing, until the 25th day of March, 1807, an act made in the thirty-ninth year of his present majesty, for the more effectual encouragement of the British fisheries. May 5. An act to revive and amend so much of an act made in the fortythird year of his present majesty, for granting certain stamp duties in Ireland, as provides for the exempting from the said duties, Bank notes, and Bank post bills, issued by the governor and company of the Bank of Ireland. An act to repeal so much of an act of the last session of parliament, as charges a duty of three shillings upon certain tenements or dwellinghouses in Ireland. An act to declare the law with respect to witnesses refusing to an swer. An act for repealing the several duties of customs upon tea imported into Great Britain, and granting a duty in lieu thereof; and for grant ing to his majesty additional duties of excise on tea. An act for granting to his majesty, until twelve months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace, additional duties of excise on tobacco and snuff. An act to enable his majesty to grant a certain annuity to vice-admiral sir John T. Duckworth, kuight of the most honourable order of the Bath, in consideration of the eminent services which he has rendered to his majesty and the public. An act for raising the sum of three millions, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1806. An act for granting to his majesty, during the present war, and for six months after the expiration thereof, by the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace, additional duties on certain goods, wares, and merchandize, imported into, and exported from, or brought or carried coastwise within Great Britain. An act for granting to his ma. jesty certain stamp duties on appraisements, and on licences to appraisers in Great Britain. An act for carrying to the consolidated fund of Great Britain, the duties on wine granted by two acts of the forty-third and forty-fourth years of his present majesty. An act for the better regulation of the office of treasurer of the ordnauce. May 23. An act for raising the sum of five hundred thousand pounds by treasury bills, for the service of Ireland, for the year 1806. An act for raising a certain sum of money, by way of annuities or debentures, An act for increasing the salary of the judge of the court of admiralty in Scotland, and the judges of the commissary court in Edinburgh. An act for extending the annuity granted to earl of St. Vincent, to the two next persons to whom the title of viscount St. Vincent is li mited. An act to repeal several acts passed in the forty-third and fortyfourth years respectively, of his present majesty's reign, for the raising and establishing an additional force for the defence of the realm. An act to prevent the importation of slaves, by any of his majesty's subjects, into any islands, colonies, plantations, or territories belonging to any foreign sovereign, state, or power; and also to render more effectual a certain order, made by his majesty in council, on the 15th day of August, 1805, for prohibiting the importation of slaves (except in certain cases) into any of the settlements, islands, colonies, or plantations, on the continent of America, or in the West Indies, which have been surrendered to his majesty's arms during the present war; and to prevent the fitting out of foreign slave ships from British ports. An act for indemnifying all persons who have been concerned in advising, issuing, or carrying into execution, any order or orders, for permitting the importation and exportation of certain goods and commodities in foreign bottoms, into and out of, his majesty's West India Islands, and the colonies, settlements, and territories, which have been conquered by his majesty's arms. An act for the more speedy trial of offences committed in distant parts upon the sea. June 9. An act to provide for the payment, at the Bank of Ireland, of the interest on certain debentures, now payable at the exchequer of Ireland; and also for altering the days of payment of the interest or dividends on certain annuities in Ireland. An act to amend an act of the last session of parliament, for continuing and amending several acts for regulating and securing the collection of the duties on spirituous liquors distilled in Ireland, and the warehousing of such spirits for exportation. An act to amend an act made in last session of parliament, for the collection of the malt duties in Ire. land, and regulating the trade of a maltster. An act for establishing certain regulations in the collection and management of his majesty's Pevenues of customs, excise, and taxes, in Ireland. An act to regulate the packing of butter in Ireland, for sale or exportation. An act for amending an act passed in Ireland, in the 29th year of king George the Second, intituled, “An act for amending and making mor● effectual, the several laws relating to the first fruits, payable out of Tt3 ecclesistical |