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Cap. 99. An act for allowing bounty on the exportation of oil of vitriol made in Great Britain.

Cap. 100. An act to empower the commissioners and governors of the royal hospital for seamen at Greenwich, in the county of Kent, to make certain allowances to old, infirm, or wounded or disabled officers in the royal navy, and to provide a fund for the payment of such allowances, and for the increase of pensions to disabled seamen and marines.

Cap. 101. An act for improving the funds of the chest at Greenwich, and amending an act passed in the forty-third year of his present Majesty, relating to the said chest.

Cap. 102. An act for repealing the duties of excise on stills used for distilling or rectifying low wines or spirits for consumption in Scotland; on worts or wash made for extracting spirits; and on spirits made for consumption in Scotland; and for granting and securing other duties in lieu thereof; and for better securing. the duties on foreign spirits and on malt.

Cap. 103. An act for allowing until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and seven, the importation of certain fish from Newfoundland, and the coast of Labrador, and for granting a bounty thereon.

Cap. 104. An act for continuing, until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and seven, an act of the last session of parliament, for allowing, under certain restrictions, the bringing a limited quantity of coals, culm, or cinders to London and Westminster, by inland navigation.

Cap. 105. An act to vest certain messuages, lands, tenements, and hereditaments, in trustees, for better securing his Majesty's docks, ships, and stores, at Portsmouth; and for extending the lines and works at Dover.

Cap. 106. An act to provide for the better execution of the several acts relating to the revenues, matters, and things under the management of the commissioners of customs and port-duties and of the commissioners of inland excise and taxes in Ireland.

Cap. 107. An act for rectifying mistakes in the names of the commissioners appointed by an act made in the last session of parliament, intituled, An act for appointing commissioners for putting into execution an act of this session of parliament, 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 one thousand eight hundred and five; and an act made in the thirty-eighth year of his present Majesty, for granting an aid to his Majesty by a landtax, to be raised in Great Britain for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight; and for appointing other commissioners, together with those named in the first mentioned act, to put in execution an act of this session of parliament, 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

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one thousand eight hundred and six, also the said act made in the thirty-eighth year of his present Majesty; and for indemnifying such persons as have acted as commissioners for executing the said acts.

Cap. 108. An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors.

Cap. 109. An act for reducing the bounty payable on the exportation of refined sugar from Great Britain, and for allowing the like bounty on the exportation of sugar-candy, as is payable on refined sugar.

Cap. 110. An act for granting during the continuance of the present war, and until six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace, an additional bounty on the exportation of the silk manufactures of Great Britain.

Cap. 111. An act for authorising his Majesty in council to allow, during the present war, and for six months after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace, the importation and exportation of certain goods and commodities in neutral ships, into and from his Majesty's territories in the West Indies and continent of South America.

Cap. 112. An act to amend the laws of excise, so far as relates to prosecutions for penalties, to the counterfeiting the stamps on the wrappers of paper, and to the punishing persons guilty of perjury.

Cap. 113. An act to permit for and during the continuance of the present war, French wines to be imported from Ireland into Great Britain in bottles or flasks, under certain restrictions.

Cap. 114. An act to amend an act passed in the last session of parliament, for increasing the drawback on linens exported from Great Britain to the West Indies.

Cap. 115. An act to permit raisins, currants, and figs, to be exported from Great Britain, duty free.

Cap. 116. An act to allow certain articles to be exported from Gibraltar and Malta direct to his Majesty's colonies in North America, in return for British American fish.

Cap. 117. An act to permit until the first day of January one thousand eight hundred and nine, the importation of masts, yards, and bow-sprits, or of timber fit for naval purposes, from the British colonies in North America, duty free.

Cap. 118. An act to extend the time for purchasing the legal quays and warehouses in the port of London, and for authorising the lords commissioners of his Majesty's treasury to purchase Somer's and Lyon's-Quays in the said port.

Cap. 119. An act to prohibit for two years after the conclusion of the present session of parliament, any ships to clear out from any port of Great Britain, for the coast of Africa, for the purpose of taking on board negroes, unless such ships shall have been previously employed in the African trade, or contracted for, for that purpose.

Cap. 120, 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

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Ireland, until the fifth day of July one thousand eight hundred and seven; and several acts for granting duties upon malt and spirits made and distilled in Ireland, and for the better collection and security of the revenues of customs and excise in Ireland, and for preventing frauds therein, until the twenty-ninth day of September one thousand eight hundred and seven; and to amend several of the said acts.

Cap. 121. An act to repeal so much of an act, made in the first year of King James the Second, as prohibits the importation of gunpowder, arms, and utensils of war, from Ireland.

Cap. 122. An act to revive and amend an act made in the parliament of Ireland, for enabling the lord-lieutenant to appoint commissioners for enquiring into the several funds and revenues granted for the purposes of education, and into the state and conditions of all schools in Ireland.

Cap. 123. An act to amend several acts for the sale of his Majesty's quit-rents, crown, and other rents, and of certain lands forfeited and undisposed of in Ireland.

Cap. 124. An act to enable his Majesty to accept the services of volunteers from the militia of Ireland, under certain restrictions. Cap. 125. An act for regulating the rank of officers in yeomanry and volunteer corps.

Cap. 126. An act for increasing the rates of subsistence to be paid to inn-keepers and others on quartering soldiers.

Cap. 127. An act to amend and extend the benefits of an act made in the thirty-fifth year of his present Majesty, to enable petty officers, seamen, and marines, serving in his Majesty's navy, to allot part of their wages or pay for, the maintenance of their wives and families.

Cap. 128. An act for making provision for such masters in ordinary of the high court of Chancery, as from age or infirmity shall be desirous of resigning their offices with the approbation of the said court; and for augmenting the income of the masters in ordinary of the said court.

Cap. 129. An act to provide additional salaries to the present clerks in the office of the accountant-general of the high court of Chancery, and to provide additional clerks for the said office with salaries; and to make other payments in respect of the said office..

Cap. 130. An act for making compensation to the proprietors of such lands and hereditaments as have been purchased for better securing his Majesty's docks, ships, and stores at Chatham, and for the use of his Majesty's ordnance at Warley Common and Woolaoich, in pursuance of an act made in the forty-fourth year of his present Majesty.

Cap. 131. An act for exonerating the estates of Percival Lewis esquire, and Marianne Lewis spinster, in the parish of Putney in the county of Surrey, from the claims of his Majesty against the estate of Edward Lewis esquire, deceased.

Cap. 182. An act for erecting a light-house on the Bell or Cape Rock, on the Eastern coast of Scotland; and for enabling the commissioners of the Treasury to advance a certain sum of money

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out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain, towards that purpose.

Cap. 153. An act to amend an act passed in the forty-second year of his present Majesty, for consolidating the several acts passed for the redemption and sale of the land-tax, and to make further provision for exonerating small livings and charitable, institutions from the land-tax.

Cap. 134. An act to provide for the security and expedition of the conveyance of letters by the post in Ireland.

Cap. 135. An act to amend the laws relating to bankrupts.

Cap. 136. An act to alter and amend two acts, made in the twenty-eighth and thirtieth years of his present Majesty, for limiting the number of persons to be carried on the outside of stage-coaches or other carriages, and regulating the conduct of the drivers and guards thereof.

Cap. 137. An act to extend the provisions of an act made in the forty-third year of his present Majesty, for permitting certain articles to be warehoused in Great Britain, to other articles not therein mentioned, and to alter the condition of the bond directed to be given by an act of the twenty-fourth year of his present Majesty, by the masters and owners of vessels and boats licensed by the Lords of the Admiralty.

Cap. 138. An act to repeal part of the excise countervailing duty on Irish hops imported; for granting an excise counterVailing duty on the importation of Irish window-glass; and to exempt tiles made for the purpose of draining lands from the duties of excise.

Cap. 139. An act for altering and amending several laws relating to the duties of excise upon malt, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and seven.:

Cap. 140. An act to amend two acts, passed in the fortysecond year of his present Majesty, relating to the militia of England and Scotland respectively as to the pay of the officers and men of the said militia.

Cap. 141. An act for making more effectual provision for the more speedy and regular examination, and audit of the publick accounts of this kingdom.

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Cap. 142. An act for the better regulation of the office of surveyor-general of woods and forests.

Cap. 143. An act for enquiring into the state of Windsor Forest in the county of Berks, and for ascertaining the boundaries of the said forest, and of the lands of the crown within the

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Cap. 144. An act to repeal an act passed in the forty-fourth year of his present Majesty, intituled, An act to alter, amend, and render more effectual an act, passed in the present session of parliament, intituled, An act for establishing and maintaining a permanent additional force for the defence of the realm, and to provide for augmenting his Majesty's regular forces, and for the gradual reduction of the militia of England, so far as the same relates to the city of London.' VOL. XLVI.

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Cap. 145. An act for enabling his Majesty to settle annuities on certain branches of the Royal Family.

Cap. 146. An act for settling and securing a certain annuity on the Earl Nelson and the heirs male of his body, and such other persons to whom the title of Earl Nelson may descend; and for granting a sum of money to purchase an estate to accompany the said title; and also, for granting a sum of money for the use of the sisters of the late vice-admiral Viscount Nelson; in consideration of the eminent and signal services performed by the said late Viscount Nelson to his Majesty and the publick.

Cap. 147. An act to enable his Majesty to continue a certain annuity to George now Lord Rodney, grandson of George Brydges Lord Rodney, in consideration of the eminent services rendered to his Majesty and the publick by the said George Brydges Lord Rodney.

Cap. 148. An act for granting to his Majesty a sum of money to be raised by lotteries.

Cap. 149. An act for granting to his Majesty a certain sum of money out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain for the year one thousand eight hundred and six; and for further appropri ating the supplies granted in this session of parliament.

Cap. 150. An act for the better regulation of the office of receiver-general of the duties of customs in Great Britain.

Cap. 151. An act to enable his Majesty to grant new leases 'on former rents for the benefit of charitable institutions, or augmentation of ecclesiastical corporations.

Cap. 152. An act to stay, until forty days after the commencement of the next session of parliament, proceedings in actions, prosecutions, or informations under an act, made in the second year of King James the First, intituled, An act concerning tanners, curriers, shoemakers, and other artificers, occupying the cutting of leather, so far as relates to the buying of oak-bark and rough hides and calves' skins in the hair.

Cap. 153. An act for the preservation of the publick harbours of the United Kingdom.

Cap. 154. An act for taking down the present building in which the treasury-chambers and offices of the court of Exchequer in Scotland were situated, and erecting new buildings in lieu thereof.

Cap. 155. An act for applying certain balances arising from the forfeited estates in Scotland, towards making canals, harbours, and other publick works there.

Cap. 156. An act for appropriating certain balances arising from the forfeited estates in Scotland to the use of the British fisheries and the erecting a lunatic asylum at Edinburgh, and the payment of the officers of the late board of annexed estates in Scotland.

Cap. 157. An act for more effectually carrying into execution the purposes of an act made in the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of his present Majesty, to give further time for the payment, on the conditions therein mentioned, of instalments on

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