THE

Statutes at Large,

Anno vicefimo feptimo GEORGII III. Regis:

Being the FOURTH Seffion of the

Sixteenth Parliament of GREAT BRITAIN.

VOL. XXXVI. PART I.

A TABLE

Paffed Anno vicefimo feptimo

GEORGII III. Regis:

Being the Fourth Seffion of the Sixteenth Parliament of Great Britain.

PUBLICK ACTS.

Cap. 1. To render more effectual the laws now in being for

fuppreffing unlawful lotteries.

Cap. 2. To enable his Majefty to establish a court of crimi nal judicature on the eastern coast of New South Wales, and the parts adjacent.

Cap. 3. For the regulation of his Majesty's marine forces while on fhore.

Cap. 4. For continuing and granting to his Majefty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-feven.

Cap. 5. For granting an aid to his Majefty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the service of the year one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-feven.

Cap. 6. For punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

Cap. 7. To continue the laws now in force for regulating the trade between the fubjects of his Majesty's dominions, and the inhabitants of the territories belonging to the united states of America, and to render the provifions thereof more effectual. VOL. XXXVI.

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Cap. 8. For defraying the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia, in that part of Great Britain called England for one year, beginning the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty-feven; for indemnifying deputy lieutenants, and officers of the militia, who have neglected to tranfmit defcriptions of their qualifications to the clerks of the peace within the time limited by law, and for giving further time for that purpose.

Cap. 9. For granting rates of poftage for the conveyance of letters and packets, between Great Britain and the port of Waterford, in the kingdom of Ireland, by way of Milford Haven.

Cap. 10. To extend the provifions of an act made in the twenty-fixth year of his prefent Majesty's reign, intituled, An act for the more effectual encouragement of the British fifberies.

Cap. 11. To explain and amend fo much of an act, made in the fixth year of the reign of King George the First, intituled, An act for making perpetual fo much of an at, made in the tenth year of the reign of Queen Anne, for the reviving and continuing several as therein mentioned, as relates to the building and repairing county gaols; and alfo an act of the eleventh and twelfth years of the reign of King William the Third, for the more effectual fuppreffion of piracy; and for making more effectual the act of the thirteenth year of the reign of King Charles the Second, intituled, "An act for eftablishing articles and orders for the regulating and better government of his Majefty's ships of war and forces by fea," as gives difcre tionary power to magiftrates to commit vagrants, and other criminals, offenders, and perfons charged with small offences, either to the common gaol or house of correction.

Cap. 12. To enable his Majefty to grant a certain annuity to the right honourable fir John Skynner knight, late lord chief baron of his Majesty's court of exchequer, in confideration of his diligent and meritorious fervices, and of his faithful and upright conduct in the execution of that office.

Cap. 13. For repealing the several duties of customs and excife, and granting other duties in lieu thereof, and for applying the faid duties, together with the other duties compofing the publick revenue; for permitting the importation of certain goods, wares, and merchandize, the produce or manufacture of the European dominions of the French king, into this kingdom; and for applying certain unclaimed monies, remaining in the exchequer for the payment of annuities on lives, to the reduction of the national debt.

Cap. 14. For paving, cleanfing, lighting, and watching, the ftreets, lanes, and other publick paffages and places, within the walls of the city of Canterbury, and the liberties thereof; and also several streets and other places near or adjoining to the said city; and for removing and preventing incroachments, obftructions, nuifances, and annoyances therein.

Cap. 15. For building a bridge at or near the ferry, over the river Trent, from Gainsborough, in the county of Lincoln, to the apposite shore, in the parish of Saundby, in the county of Nottingham.

Cap. 16.