45. An act for confirming articles of agreement for inclosing common fields, commons, paftures, and wafte grounds, in the townships or Hamlets of Dringhoe, Upton, and Brough, in the parish of Skipfea, in Holderness, in the east riding of the county of York. 46. An act for dividing and inclofing the open and common fields, common paftures, common meadows, common grounds, and wafte grounds, of and in the manor, parish, and liberties of Towcester, with the hamlets of Wood Burcott, and Caldecote, in the county of Northampton.. 47. An act for inclofing and dividing the common fields, moors, and common grounds, in the township of Rotherham, in the county of York. 48. An act for inclofing and dividing several open fields, and commonable lands, within the manor and parish of Wintringham, in the county of Lincoln. 49. An act for repealing part, and explaining and amending other parts, of an act made in the thirty fecond year of the reign of his late Majefty King George the Second, intituled, An att for vefting part of the eftates intailed by the will of the most noble Charles Noel, duke of Beaufort, deceased, in trustees, to be fold, and for purchafing other eftates, to be fettled to the like uses, and for impowering the guardian and trustees named in the faid will, to make leafes of the faid duke's eftates, in the counties of Gloucester, Wilts, Hants, Devon, Dorfet, Glamorgan, and Brecon, during the minority of his children. 50. An act for confirming a partition of fo many of the eftates of Charles late duke of Somerfet, deceased, as were by him fettled and devised to the ufe of Frances late marchionefs of Granby, and of Charlotte countess of Aylesford, his two daughters, and their iffue, in ftrict fettlement, with feveral remainders over; and for vesting and fettling the entire premiffes to the feveral uses therein mentioned; and for the feveral other purposes therein mentioned. 51. An act for rectifying a mistake in the name of one of the trustees in the settlement made upon the marriage of the right honourable William earl of Harrington, with the right honourable Carolina countefs of Harrington his wife. 52. An act for explaining and amending the marriage fettlement of Edward lord Winterton, in the kingdom of Ireland, by impowering him to fell part of the eftates in the counties of Suffex, Surrey, and Norfolk, therein comprised, and for layout the monies arifing by fuch fale, in the purchase of other eftates of equal or greater value, to be fettled to the uses of the faid marriage fettlement, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 53. An act to enable Sir Nicholas Hacket Carew, baronet, to grant a leafe, or leafes, of part of his settled estate, for the improvement thereof, pursuant to a contract by him entered into for that purpose 54. An act for vefting the capital meffuage, with the lands and hereditaments thereunto belonging, at Southgate, in the parish 2 parish of Edmonton, and at Frian Barnett, in the county of Middlefex, and at Eaft Barnett, in the county of Hertford, late part of the eftate of James Colebrooke, efquire, deceased, comprized in the marriage fettlement of Sir George Colebrooke, baronet, in him and his heirs, and for fettling other lands and hereditaments, in the counties of Surrey and Middlefex, of equal value, to the fame ufes, in lieu thereof, and for other purposes in the said act mentioned. 55. An act for difcharging certain leafehold houses and tenements, comprized in the marriage fettlement of Humphreys Ram, efquire, from the trufts of the fettlement, and for fettling freehold houses of greater value in lieu thereof, 56. An act for vefting a toft or scite of a copyhold house, in Richmond, in the county of Surrey, lately pulled down, in truftees, to be fold, leafed, or otherwife difpofed of, for the benefit of the persons claiming under the will of Matthias Perkins, gentleman, deceased; and for impowering John Perkins, his fon, to make fuch leafes of his eftate, at Richmond and Tuddington, as are therein mentioned. 57. An act for discharging divers lands, eftates, and hereditaments, devised by the will of Thomas Ruggles, efquire, deceased, from the ufes and trufts of the faid will; and for fettling other lands and tenements, of greater value, in lieu thereof, to the like uses. 58. An act for vefting the settled eftate, late of Ralph Jenison, efquire, deceased, at Great Walworth, in the county of Durham, in trustees, in trust, to be conveyed to John Dixon, gentleman, and his heirs, pursuant to a decree, and fubfequent orders, of the court of chancery at Durham. 59. An act to enable Jofeph Fell, efquire, to make a lease of a farm and lands in Walthamstowe, in the county of Essex, for a term of ninety nine years. 60. An act to enable John Holden, gentleman, and Thomas Holden, his fon, an infant, and their truftees, to raise the fum of one thousand pounds, upon certain eftates in Leicestershire and Warwickshire, or on a fufficient part thereof, to be applied for the purposes therein mentioned. 61. An act for vefting two acres of land in Walton upon Thames, in trustees, to be fold, and conveyed to the executors of Samuel Dicker, efquire, for the benefit of Mary Delver, an infant. 62. An act for vefting divers lands and hereditaments, in the parish of Igborough, in the county of Norfolk, part of the fettled eftate late of Henry Ord, efquire, deceased, in truftees to convey the fame to James Nelthorpe, efquire, and his heirs, and to lay out the money to be paid for the fame, in the purchase of other lands and hereditaments, to be fettled to the ufes therein mentioned. 63. An act for vefting certain eftates, in the parish of Saint Botolph Billingsgate, London, late the eftate of William Clapham, gentleman, in trustees, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. 64. An act for fale of part of the settled eftate of Thomas Carew, of Crowcombe, in the county of Somerset, efquire, and for fettling other lands and hereditaments, of greater value in lieu thereof, to the fame uses. 65. An act for vesting the settled estate of John Weller, efquire, deceased, lying in the counties of Kent and Chefter, in trustees, to be fold, to pay off incumbrances affecting the fame, and to lay out the furplus of the money arifing by fuch fäle (if any) in the purchase of other lands to be fettled to the uses of the will of faid John Weller. 66. An act to enable William Richards and Edward Richards, infants, and their heirs, to take and use the furname, and bear the arms of Powell, pursuant to the will of Roger Powell, efquire, deceased. 67. An act to enable Charles Smith, an infant, lately called Charles Loraine, and his heirs, to take, and use, the furname of Smith, pursuant to the will of Richard Smith, efquire, deceased. 68. An act for naturalizing Luke Wettftein, Peter Texier, junior, and Daniel Goy. 69. An act for naturalizing John Doerner. THE STATUTES at Large, &c. Anno fecundo GEORGII III. At the Parliament begun and holden atWestminfter, the nineteenth day of May, Anno Dom. 1761, in the first year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the Third, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. And from thence continued by feveral prorogations to the third day of November following; being the first feffion of the twelfth parliament of Great Britain. CAP. I. An act for enabling his Majefty to make provision for supporting the royal dignity of the Queen, in cafe she shall furvive his Majesty. Most Gracious Sovereign, WHI HEREAS your Majefty's most faithful commons reflect Preamble, with the greatest pleasure on the joyful and aufpicious event of your Majesty's royal nuptials with a princess, defcended from an illuftrious proteftant line, diftinguished by the most eminent graces and endowments, and worthy to be the royal partner of your throne, by poffeffing every virtue that can adorn it, and have a juft fenfe of that affectionate regard which your Majefty has fhewn for your people, by confulting on this mot important and interefting occafion, as on every other, their happiness and that of their pofterity, and are truly fenfible how acceptable it will be to your Majefty, that a good, certain, and competent revenue be fettled for fupporting the honour and dignity of her Majefty, your royal confort, in case she should furvive your Majefty (whofe lives God long preferve). And whereas by an act made in the first year of the reign of her late Annæ. Majesty Queen Anne, for preferving the inheritance of several revenues of the crown, intituled, An act for the better support of her Majesty's houshold, and of the honour and dignity of the crown, all grants thereof (other than such as are therein expreffed) are declared to be void; and by another act made in the ninth 9 Annæ, year of her said late Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for eftablishing a general post office for all her Majefty's dominions, and for fettling a weekly fum cut of the revenues thereof, for the service of the war, and other her Majesty's occafions, it was enacted, That fuch part of the duties and revenues arifing in or by the general VOL. XXV. B letter 1 Geo.3. letter office or poft office, which was thereby vested in her faid late Majefty, her heirs, and fucceffors, and therein mentioned to be undeterminable, fhould not be alienable, chargeable, or grantable for any eftate, term, or time whatsoever, to endure longer than the life of the King or Queen that fhould make such alienation, charge, or grant refpectively; and that all gifts, grants, alienations, and affurances whatfoever, to be had or made of, and charged upon, the fame duties or revenues, or any part thereof, contrary to the provifion of that act, should be null and void: and whereas by an act made in the last feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for the support of his Majesty's boufbold, and of the honour and dignity of the crown of Great Britain, the duties and revenues commonly called The hereditary revenues, together with feveral temporary duties and revenues thereby continued, and all other branches and revenues which, on the twenty-fourth day of October, one thousand feven hundred and fixty, ftood fettled or appointed to be towards the fupport of the houthold of his late Majefty King George the Second of bleffed memory, and the honour and dignity of the crown, were (except as is therein excepted) directed to be, during your Majefty's life, carried to, and made part of, the general or aggregate fund established by an act made in the first year of the reign of his late Majefty King George the Firit; and for the fupport of your Majesty's houthold, and of the honour and dignity of your crown, a certain yearly rent or rents, or fum or fums of money, was or were by the faid act granted out of the faid fund: now we do most humbly, cheerfully, and unanimously befeech your Majefty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the King's molt excellent Majefty, by and with the advice and confent of the lords fpiritual and temporal, and commons, in this prefent parliament affembled, and by the authority of the fame, That it fhall and may be lawful to and for the King's most excellent Majefty, by any letters patent, or indenture, or by feveral letters patent or indentures, under the great feal of Great Britain, hereafter to be made, to give and grant to her faid Majefty the Queen, or to fuch other perfon or perfons as his Majefty fhall think fit, to be named in fuch letters patent, indenture or indentures, and his or their heirs, to the use of, or in truft for her Majefty, one annuity or yearly rent or fum of one hundred thousand pounds of lawful money of Great Britain; which annuity or yearly fum of one hundred to take place thousand pounds, and every part thereof, fhall commence and from the de- take effect immediately from and after the decease of his MaMajefty, and jefty, and continue from thenceforth for and during the natural continue dur- life of her Majefty; and shall be paid and payable at the four ing her natu- moft ufual days of payment in the year; that is to fay, the fifth rallife; day of January, the fifth day of April, the fifth day of July, and the fame to be the tenth day of October, by even and equal portions; the first paid quarter payment thereof to be made at fuch of the faid days as fhall Jy, first and next happen after the decease of his Majefty, in cafe. her Majesty the Queen fhall furvive him, as aforefaid; and that the faid annuity or yearly fum of one hundred thousand pounds, His Majefty impowered, by letters patent under the great feal, to grant unto the Queen an annuity of 100,000. 1. cease of his 2 |