THE Statutes at Large, FROM MAGNA CHARTA To the END of the Eleventh Parliament of GREAT BRITAIN, CONTINUED. By DANBY PICKERING, of Gray's-Inn, Efq; VOL. XXXIV. CAMBRIDGE, Printed by JOHN ARCHDEACON, Printer to the UNIVERSITY; CUM PRIVILEGIO. A TABLE OF THE STATUTES PUBLICK and PRIVATE, Paffed Anno vicefimo fecundo GEORGII III. Regis. Being the Second Seffion of the Fifteenth Parliament of Great Britain. Cap.1. FOR PUBLICK ACTS. OR further continuing an act, made in the seventeenth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act to impower his Majefty to fecure and detain perfons charged with, or fufpected of, the crime of high treafon, committed in any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations in America, or on the high feas, or the crime of piracy. Cap. 2. For granting an aid to his Majefty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thoufand feven hundred and eighty-two. Cap. 3. For continuing and granting to his Majefty certain duties upon malt, mum, cyder, and perry, for the service of the year one thousand feven hundred and eighty-two. Cap. 4. For punishing mutiny and defertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters. Cap. 5. For the regulation of his Majefty's marine forces while on fhore. Cap. 6. For keeping the militia forces of this kingdom com. plete, during the time therein mentioned. VOL. XXXIV. Capi Cap. 7. For further continuing an act, made in the mineteenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, for allowing the importation of fine organzined Italian thrown filk in any ships or vef fels, for a limited time. Cap. 8. For railing a certain fum of money by way of annuities, and for establishing a lottery. Cap. 9. For rectifying mistakes in the names of feveral of the commiffioners appointed, by an act made in the laft feffion of parliament, to put in execution an act made in the fame feffion, intituled, An act for granting an aid to his Majefly by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and eighty-one; and for appointing other commiffioners, together with thofe named in the firft-mentioned act, to put in execution an act of this feflion of parliament, for granting an aid to his Majefly by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Jervice of the year one thousand feven hundred and eighty-two. Cap. 10. For the better detaining, and more eafy exchange of American prifoners brought into Great Brituin. Cap. 11. For allowing further time to negociate, by indorfement, the bonds iffued in purfuance of an act, made in the fourteenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for more effectually carrying into execution certain propofals made by the most noble Henry duke of Buccleugh, the most noble Charles duke of Queensberry and Dover, and others, for redeeming the annuities granted by the company of the bank of Ayr, in that part of Great Britain called Scotland, known under the firm of Douglas, Heron, and Company. Cap. 12. For making compenfation to the proprietors of certain meffuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in the counties of Cornwall and Devon, purchased in pursuance of two acts of parliament, one made in the twentieth year of the reign of his present Majefty, for better fecuring his Majefty's docks, ships, and ftores, at Plymouth and Sheerness; and for better defending the paffage of the river Thames at Gravefend and Tilbury Fort; and the other in the twenty-first year of his present Majesty's reign, for explaining and amending fo much of the faid act as relates to the fecurity of his Majesty's docks, fbips, and flores, at Plymouth; and to certain proprietors and occupiers of land at or near Plymouth, who have fuftained any lofs or damage in confequence of the faid acts. Cap. 13. To continue feveral laws therein mentioned, relating to the better encouragement of the making of fail cloth in Great Britain; to the encouragement of the filk manufactures; and for taking off feveral duties on merchandize exported, and reducing other duties; to the free importation of cochineal and indico; to the prohibiting the importation of books reprinted abroad, and first compofed, written, and printed in Great Britain; to fecuring the duties upon foreign-made fail cloth, and charging foreign-made fails with a duty; to the allowing a bounty on the exportation of British corn and grain in neutral |