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the trade between the fubjects of his Majefty's dominions and the inhabitants of the territories belonging to the united states of America, fo far as the fame relate to the trade and commerce carried on between this kingdom and the inhabitants of the counthe tries belonging to the faid united states.

Cap. 13. For punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

Cap. 14. For appointing commiffioners for putting in execution an act of this feffion of parliament, intituled, An act for granting an aid to his Majefty by a land tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and the ninety-one.

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Cap. 15. For granting to his Majesty an additional duty on gar imported into this kingdom.

Cap. 16. For defraying the charge of pay and cloathing of the militia, in that part of Great Britain called England, for one year, beginning the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand feven hundred and ninety-one.

Cap. 17. For cleanfing, lighting, and watching, and levelling the furfaces of the streets, and other publick places, within the hamlets of Deretend and Bordefley in the county of Warwick; and for removing and preventing nuifances, obftructions, and encroachments, and regulating the driving of carts and other carriages used for carrying goods, wares, and merchandises therein. Cap. 18. To explain and amend an act, made in the twelfth year of the reign of his prefent Majesty, intituled, An alt for paving, lighting, cleanfing, watering, and watching the streets and other publick places, within fuch part of the parish of Saint Pancras in the county f Middlefex, as lies on the weft fide of Tottenham Court Road; and for preventing nuifances and obftructions therein; and for obliging the trustees for the care of the faid road, to pave, repair, and cleanse fuch part of the faid road as is therein defcribed.

Cap. 19. For amending and enlarging the powers of, and rendering more effectual, an act made in the thirty-first year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, An all for afcertaining and collecting the poor's rates, and for better regulating the poor, in the parish of Saint Mary Magdalen Bermondsey, in the county of Surrey, and for other the purposes therein mentioned.

Cap. 20. For dividing and inclosing certain open fields, lands, and grounds, in the parish of Cottingham, in the eaft riding of the county of York; and for amending an act paffed in the fixth year of the reign of his present Majefty, for dividing, inclofing, and draining certain lands, grounds, and common paftures, in the faid parish.

Cap. 21. For granting to his Majefty an additional duty on certificates iffued with refpect to the killing of game.

Cap. 22. For building a new common gaol and feffion houfe, with accommodations thereto, for the county of Surrey, and for difpofing of the prefent county gaol, and the ground thereto be longing.

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Cap. 23. For enlarging the term and powers of two acts mad one in the twenty-fecond, and the other in the twenty-nin year of the reign of King George the Second, for repairing, e larging, and preserving, the harbour of Mary Port, in the coun of Cumberland.

Cap. 24. For the better relief and employment of the po belonging to the town of Ofweftry, and to certain parishes withi the hundred of Ofweftry, in the county of Salop, and to fuch pa of the parish of Llanymynech as lies within the faid hundred; an to the parish of Chirk, in the county of Denbigh; and to the parit of Llanfilin, in the counties of Salop and Denbigh.

Cap. 25. For repealing the duties now charged on bills c exchange, promiffory notes, and other notes, drafts, and orders and on receipts; and for granting other duties in lieu thereof.

Cap. 26. To allow the importation of feal skins cured with foreign falt free of duty, for a limited time.

Cap. 27. For repealing certain duties of excise upon tanned goat fkins and sheep fkins, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof; and alfo certain duties of customs on tanned goat skins imported.

Cap. 28. To enable his Majesty to make compenfation to the officers of the late wine licence office, for the lofs of their offices. Cap. 29. For establishing a court of civil jurisdiction in the inland of Newfoundland, for a limited time.

Cap. 30. For regulating the importation and exportation of corn, and the payment of the duty on foreign corn imported, and of the bounty on British corn exported.

Cap. 31. To repeal certain parts of an act, paffed in the fourteenth year of his Majefty's reign, intituled, An act for making more effectual provifion for the government of the province of Quebec, in North America; and to make further provifion for the government of the faid province.

Cap. 32. To relieve, upon conditions, and under restrictions, the perfons therein defcribed, from certain penalties and difabilities to which papifts, or perfons profeffing the popish religion, are by law fubject.

Cap. 33. For the payment of the fum of five hundred thoufand pounds by the governor and company of the bank of England into the receipt of his Majefty's exchequer.

Cap. 34. For enabling his Majefty to fettle an annuity of twelve thousand pounds on his royal highness the duke of Clarence, during pleasure.

Cap. 35. To render perfons convicted of petty larceny competent witneffes.

Cap. 36. To prevent keels, pan keels, and pan boats, and other boats, and wains and carts being used in the removal or carriage of coals, after having undergone any alterations or repairs, without being first inspected, re-admeasured, marked, and nailed. Cap. 37. To prohibit the importation into Great Britain of filk crapes and tiffanies of the manufacture of Italy, unless brought directly from thence.

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Cap. 38. To amend an act, made in the twenty-eighth year of his prefent Majefty's reign, for regulating the trade between the fubjects of his Majesty's colonies and plantations in North America, and in the Weft India islands, and the countries belonging to the united fates of America; and between his Majefty's faid fubjects and the foreign islands in the Weft Indies; and alfo an act, made in the twenty-seventh year of his prefent Majefty's reign, for allowing the importation and exportation of certain goods, wares, and merchandife, in the ports of Kingston, Savannah la Mar, Montego Bay, and Santa Lucea in the island of Jamaica, in the port of Saint George in the island of Grenada, in the port of Rofea, in the iffand of Dominica, and in the port of Naffau, in the island of New Providence, one of the Bahama islands, under certain regulations and reftrictions. Cap. 39. For the better regulation and government of feamen employed in the coasting trade of this kingdom.

Cap. 40. For establishing and confirming a certain resolution or order of the governor general in council of Fort William in Bengal, and all acts done by virtue thereof; and for granting further powers to the faid governor general, during his refidence on the coafts of Coromandel and Malabar.

Cap. 41. For granting to his Majefty certain fums of money out of the confolidated fund; for applying certain monies therein mentioned, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one; and for further appropriating the fupplies granted in this feffion of parliament,

Cap. 42. For indemnifying all perfons who have been concerned in advifing or carrying into execution a certain order of council refpecting the importation of a limited quantity of faltpetre; for repealing the duties now payable upon the importation of faltpetre; and for granting other duties in lieu thereof,

Cap. 43. To continue feveral laws, relating to the granting a bounty on certain fpecies of British and Irish linens exported, and taking off the duties on the importation of foreign raw linen yarns made of flax; to the importing falt from Europe into the province of Quebec in America; to the allowing a bounty on the exportation of British-made cordage; to continue and amend several laws relating to the encouragement of the fisheries carried on in the Greenland feas and Davis's Streights; and to the prohibiting the exportation of tools and utenfils made use of in the iron and steel manufactures of this kingdom; and to prevent the feducing of artificers and workmen employed in those manufactures to go into parts beyond the feas; and to make perpetual an act made in the fifteenth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, to permit the free importation of raw goat skins into this kingdom.

Cap. 44. To continue the feveral laws therein mentioned, fo far as relates to the afcertaining the ftrength of spirits by Clarke's hydrometer.

Cap. 45. For the encouragement of the pilchard fishery, by allowing a further bounty upon pilchards taken, cured, and exported.

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Cap. 46. For the better regulating of gaols, and other places of confinement.

Cap. 47. To prevent other fhips than thofe laden with tobacco from mooring and discharging their lading at the places appointed by an act, made in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his prefent Majefty, intituled, An act for repealing the duties on tobacco and fnuff, and for granting new duties in lieu thereof; to prohibit the exportation of damaged or mean tobacco; and for permitting the importation of tobacco and fnuff into the port of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Cap. 48. For raising a certain fum of money by loans or exchequer bills, for the fervice of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.

Cap. 49. For raifing a certain fum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for defraying the publick expences occafioned by the augmentation of his Majefty's forces, in the year one thoufand feven hundred and ninety.

Cap. 50. For raising a further fum of money, by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.

Cap. 51. For better protecting the feveral oyfter fisheries within this kingdom.

Cap. 52. To continue, for a limited time, an act paffed in the twenty-ninth year of the reign of his prefent Majesty, intituled, An act for further regulating the trade or bufinefs of pawn

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Cap. 53. For granting to his Majesty a certain fum of money, to be raised by a lottery.

Cap. 54. To continue for a limited time, and to amend an act made in the laft feffion of parliament, intituled, An act to amend and continue, for a limited time, feveral acts of parliament for regulating the shipping and carrying flaves in British veffels from the coaft of Africa.

Cap. 55. For eftablishing a company for carrying on trade between the kingdom of Great Britain and the coafts, harbours, and countries of Africa; and for enabling the faid company to hold, by grant from his Majefty, his heirs and fucceffors, and from the native princes of Africa, a certain district of land, commonly called The Peninfula of Sierra Leone, now vested in his Majefty, or belonging to the faid princes, for the better enabling the faid company to carry on the said trade.

Cap. 56. More effectually to prevent abuses and frauds committed by perfons employed in the manufactures of combing wool and worsted yarn, in the county of Norfolk, and city of Norwich and county of the faid city.

Cap. 57. For building and maintaining a bridewell and correction house in and for the city and county of Edinburgh.

Cap. 58. For the better regulation and government of the company of cutlers, within the liberty of Hallamfhire, in the county of York, and within fix miles of the faid liberty, and of their journeymen and apprentices.

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Cap. 59. For making and maintaining a navigable canal from, or from near to, the town of Birmingham, in the county of War wick, to communicate with the river Severn, near to the city of Worcester.

Cap. 60. For building a bridge, near the ferry over the river Ouze, from Selby, in the weft riding of the county of York, to the oppofite (hore, in the parish of Hemingborough, in the east riding of the faid county.

Cap. 61. For paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, widenng, regulating, and improving, a certain street called The Upper Ground Street, in the parish of Christ Church, in the county of Surrey, and certain other ftreets, lanes, paffages, and places, within the faid parifh; and for removing and preventing encroachments, nuifances, and annoyances therein; and for thutting up part of an alley or paffage leading from Bull Alley to Marygold Court.

Cap. 62. For widening, improving, regulating, paving, cleansing, and lighting the streets, lanes, and other publick paffages and places, within the King's town of Maidstone, in the county of Kent, for removing and preventing encroachments, obftructions, nuisances and annoyances therein; for better fupplying the faid town with water, and for repairing the highways within the parish of Maidstone.

Cap. 63. For repealing an act, made in the eighteenth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An act for paving of the tity of Chichester, and for the better paving, repairing and cleansing, the streets, lanes, and publick ways and paffages within the walls of the faid city, and for removing and preventing encroachments, obftructions, and annoyances therein.

Cap. 64. For repairing, paving, and cleansing the highways, ftreets, and lanes, within the town and borough of Deal, in the county of Kent, and for removing and preventing encroachments, obstructions, nuisances, and annoyances therein.

Cap. 65. For making and maintaining a navigable communication between the Loughborough canal and the town of Leicester, and for making and maintaining a communication by railways or ftone roads, and water levels, from feveral places and mines to the faid Loughborough canal, and for continuing the fame, by paffing along the faid canal to the faid navigable communication, all in the county of Leicefter.

Cap. 66. To enable the earl of Egremont to make and maintain the river Rother navigable from the town of Midhurst to a certain meadow called The Railed Pieces, or Stopham Meadow, in the parish of Stopham, and a navigable cut from the faid river to the river Arun, at or near Stopham Bridge, in the county of Suffex, and for other purposes.

Cap. 67. To enable the company of proprietors of the Thames and Severn canal navigation to borrow a further fum of money to compleat the faid navigation.

Cap. 68. For making and maintaining a navigable canal from Manchester to or near Preto-lee Bridge, in the township of Little

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