into, and exportation from, such colonies, of certain articles by Dutch proprietors, of the European dominions of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands; and to repeal an act of the 54th of his present Majesty, for permitting a trade between the United Provinces and certain colonies in his Majesty's possession.

An act to enable his Majesty to authorize the exportation of the machinery necessary for erecting a mint in the United States of America.

An act for enabling the officers of the customs at creeks, harbours, and basins of Great Britain, to take entries of ships and goods arriving from and bound to Ireland.

An act to allow makers of oxygenated muriatic acid, to take crushed rock salt, duty free, for making such acid, or oxymuriate of lime for bleaching linen and cotton.

An act to authorize such person as his Majesty shall appoint to transfer a certain sum in three pounds per cent. reduced annuities, now standing in the name of the dissolved college of Hertford, in the university of Oxford; and also to receive dividends due upon such annuities.

An act for establishing an agreement with the governor and company of the Bank of England for advancing the sum of three millions, for the service of the year 1816.

An act to authorize the advancing, for the public service, a proportion of the balance that shall remain from time to time in the Bank of England, for the payment of dividends on account of the public debt, for lottery prizes or benefits not claimed, and principals of stocks and annuities remaining unclaimed.

An act to unite and consolidate into one fund all the public revenues of Great Britain and Ireland, and to provide for the application thereof to the

general service of the United Kingdom.

An act to vest the Elgin collection of ancient marbles and sculpture in the trustees of the British Museum for the use of the public.

An act for more effectually securing the liberty of the subject.

An act for enabling the officers in his Majesty's navy, and their representatives, to draw for and receive their half-pay, and for transferring the duty of making certain payments from the clerks of the cheque at his Majes ty's dock-yards to the clerks of the treasurer of the navy at the same yards.

An act to amend the act of the 53d of his present Majesty, entitled,' An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England;' and to give further powers to the court appointed by the said act.

An act for further securing the duties on paper and pasteboard; and for repealing the countervailing duty upon pasteboard imported from Ireland, and the drawback upon pasteboard exported; and granting other countervailing duties and drawbacks in lieu thereof.

An act for the making more effectual provision for the prevention of smuggling, and rewarding officers and persons making seizures and capturing smuggling vessels; for licensing luggers employed in the North Sea fishery; and obliging exporters of excise. able goods on drawback to give notice of shipment.

An act to amend and continue, until the end of the next session of Parliament, an act of the 54th of his present Majesty, for regulating the trade in spirits between Great Britain and Ireland reciprocally, and to grant and allow new countervailing duties and drawbacks on spirits imported and exported between England and Scotland and Ireland respectively.

An act to repeal the duties payable in Scotland upon wash and spirits, and distillers' licences, to grant other duties in lieu thereof, and to establish further regulations for the distillation of spirits from corn for home consumption in Scotland, until the 10th of November, 1818.

An act to amend an act of the last session of Parliament relating to stamp duties in Great Britain, so far as relates to inventories to be exhibited and recorded in any commissary court in Scotland.

An act to repeal certain drawbacks and countervailing duties of excise on beer and malt; to alter the drawbacks on plate glass, and to prevent frauds therein.

An act to continue, until the 5th of July, 1817, an act of the 46th of his present Majesty, for granting an additional bounty on the exportation of the silk manufactures of Great Britain.

An act for the further regulation of the trades of tanners and curriers.

An act to repeal part of the duty on spirits distilled in Ireland, to reduce the drawback on such spirits exported to foreign parts, and to make further regulations for the collection of the said duties, and the duties on licences for retailing spirituous and other liquors in Ireland.

An act to make certain provisions for modifying the several acts for imposing and levying of fines, in respect of unlawful distillation of spirits in Ire

land.

An act for repealing the duties payable for licences for retailing beer, ale, cyder, perry, or spirits in Great Britain, and for imposing other duties in lieu thereof.

An act to regulate the conveyance of passengers from the United Kingdom to the United States of America, in British vessels.

An act for ratifying the purchase of

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the Claremont estate, and for settling the same as a residence for her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta and his Serene Highness Leopold George Frederick Prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld.

An act to explain and amend an act, passed in the 55th of the reign of his present Majesty, entitled, An Act for the Abolition of Gaol and other Fees connected with the Gaols in England.'

An act to amend an act passed in the 39th and 40th of the reign of his present Majesty, for the safe custody of insane persons charged with of fences.

An act for admitting oil and blubber from the British colonies in North America, upon payment of the like duty as oil and blubber from Newfoundland.

An act to explain and amend an act passed in the present session of Parlia ment for punishing mutiny and desertion, in relation to the transportation of offenders.

An act to procure annual returns of persons committed, tried, and convict ed for criminal offences and misdemeanours in Ireland.

An act for defraying, until the 25th of June, 1817, the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia of Ireland, and for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the said militia during peace.

An act to make provision for securing, for a time to be limited, the profits of the office of Clerk of the Pleas of his Majesty's court of Exchequer in Ireland.

An act to continue, until the 5th of April, 1817, an act of the 45th of his present Majesty, for explaining and amending several acts relating to spiritual persons holding of farms, and for enforcing the residence of such persons on their benefices in England. An act to continue, until the 1st of

August, 1817, two acts of the 50th and 55th of his present Majesty, allowing the bringing of coals, culm, and cinders, to London and Westminster.

An act for the more effectual punishment of persons riotously destroying or damaging buildings, engines, and machinery, used in and about colleries and other mines, waggon-ways, bridges, and other works, used in conveying and shipping coals and other minerals; and for enabling the owners of such property to recover damages for the injury sustained.

An act to amend an act of the 53d of his present Majesty, for the relief of insolvent debtors in Ireland.

An act to reduce the duty on the exportation from Great Britain of small coals of a certain description.

An act to amend two acts made in the 53d of the reign of his present Majesty, for opening a more convenient communication from Mary-lebone Park to Charing-cross, and for paving the streets to be made in Maryle-bone Park, and to enable his Majesty to grant small portions of land as sites for public buildings, or to be used as cemetries, within the bills of mortality.

An act to repeal certain provisions in local acts for the maintenance and management of the poor.

An act to repeal an act made in the 39th and 40th of his present Majesty's reign, entituled, "An Act to extend the provisions of an Act made in the 17th of the reign of King George the Second, entituled, An Act to amend and make more effectual the laws relating to rogues, vagabonds, and other idle and disorderly persons, and to houses of correction," and to 'make other provisions in lieu thereof.

An act to revive and continue until the 15th of June, 1817, an act of the 52d of his present Majesty, for the

more effectual preservation of the peace, by enforcing the duties of watching and warding.

An act for enlarging the time for making the award respecting his Majesty's allotments under an act of the 53d of his present Majesty, for enclosing Windsor Forest; and for extending the provisions of the said act.

An act for making provision to defray the annual charge of any loan of this session of Parliament.

An act for allowing a drawback of the duty on coals consumed in lead mines in Cornwall.

An act for authorizing the Barons of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, to order the payment of a certain sum of money, to be applied in completing the Crinan canal.

An act to enable his Majesty to grant certain lands, tenements, and hereditaments, escheated and devolved to his Majesty by the dissolution of Hertford College, in the university of Oxford, and the site of the said college and buildings thereon, to the chancellor, master, and scholars of the said uni versity, in trust for the principal and other members of Magdalen-Hall, for the purpose of removing to such site; and to enable the said chancellor, masters, and scholars, of the said university, and the president and scho lars of Saint Mary Magdalen college, to do all necessary acts for such removal.

An act to extend the provisions of an act of the first of the reign of James the 1st, entituled, An Act for the better relief of the creditors against such as shall become bankrupts.'

An act to abolish the punishment of the pillory, except in certain cases. An act to regulate the binding of parish apprentices.

An act for establishing the use of an hydrometer, called Sykes's hydrometer, in ascertaining the strength of

spirits, instead of Clarke's hydrome

ter.

An act for enabling ecclesiastical corporate bodies, under certain circumstances, to alienate lands for enlarging cemetries or church-yards.

An act for granting to his Majesty

a certain sum out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain, and for apply ing certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1816, and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of Parliament.

George Morton, for a mode of attaching horses to four-wheeled carriages. Joseph Baader, M. D. Knt. of Bavaria, for an improved plan of constructing rail-roads, and carriages to be used on them.

James Dution, jun. for improvements in fulling mills.

Allan Taylor, Daniel Gallafent, sen. and jun. for an engine for raising cold

and hot water.

George Young, for a method of making a peculiar species of canvas for military and other purposes.

John Malzi, for an instrument called a metranome, or musical time keeper. Marquis De Chambonnes, for a method of conducting the air and regulating the temperature in houses and other buildings.

Christopher Dihl, for improvements in distillation.

James Lee, for improvements in his methods of preparing hemp and flax. Samuel Clegg, for an improved gas apparatus.

Davis Redmund, for a machine for the manufacture of corks and bungs. Robert Kinder, for a method of propelling ships, boats, and other vessels. Robert Dickinson, for an improvement in the hooping of barrels.

William Adamson, for a principle by which a horizontal wheel may bɛ

John Budgem, for a process of redu. cing rags and other articles in making. paper, after they have been used, into their original state.

John Geo. Drake, for a method of expelling the molasses out of refined sugar.

William Baynham, for a composition for making leather and other articles water-proof.

Joseph Manton, for improvements in the construction of fire-arms, and. in shoeing horses.

Francis Turrell, for a wheel-guard. George Fred. Muntz, for a method of abating smoke, and obtaining a valuable product therefrom.

John Wood, and Joshua Wordsworth, for improvements in machinery for spinning.

Bryan Donkin, for a method for effecting processes in which a temperature above that of boiling water is requisite.

John Leigh Bradbury, for improvements in spinning machinery.