TRADE OF IRELAND.

NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

LIST OF GENERAL ACTS

Passed in the SEVENTH Session of the SEVENTH Parliament of the
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-7 Geo. IV. 1826.

I. AN Act for granting and applying certain sums of money for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.

II. An Act for raising the sum of ten millions by exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.

III. An Act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively.

IV. An Act to amend an Act of the last session of parliament, for making provision for the salaries of certain bishops, and other ecclesiastical dignitaries and ministers, in the diocese of Jamaica, and in the diocese of Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands, and for enabling his Majesty to grant annuities to such bishops upon the resignation of their offices. V. An Act to give effect to treaties of commerce with countries in America not at present provided with national merchant shipping.

VI. An Act to limit, and after a certain period to prohibit, the issuing of promissory notes under a limited sum in England.

VII. An Act to facilitate the advancing of money by the governor and company of the Bank of England upon deposits or pledges.

VIII. An Act to amend so much of an

Act of the last session of parliament, for regulating the qualification and the manner of enrolling jurors in Scotland, and of choosing jurors in criminal trials there, and to unite

counties for the purposes of trial in cases of high treason in Scotland, as relates to the qualification of special jurors.

IX. An Act to provide for the more

effectual punishment of certain offences

in Ireland, by imprisonment with hard
labour.

X. An Act for punishing mutiny and
desertion; and for the better payment
XI. An Act for the regulating of his
of the army and their quarters.
Majesty's royal marine forces while
on shore.

XII. An Act for exonerating a certain

estate called Maes Llemystin, situate
in the parish of Llangadfan in the
county of Montgomery, belonging to
Charles Dallas, esq., from the claims
of the crown.

XIII. An Act to alter and amend an Act
passed in the fifty-fourth year of the
reign of his late Majesty king George
the Third, for vesting in his majesty,
his heirs and successors, for ever, part
of the ground and buildings now be
longing to the society of King's Inns,
Dublin, for erecting thereon a re-
XIV. An Act for the further amend
pository for public records in Ireland.
ment of an Act of the first and second
years of his present Majesty, for the
establishment of asylums for the
lunatic poor in Ireland.
XV. An Act to amend an Act passed in
the seventh and eighth year of the
reign of king William the third, for
XVI. An Act to consolidate and amend
the more easy recovery of small tithes.
several acts relating to the royal
hospitals for soldiers at Chelsea and
Kilmainham.

XVII. An Act for remedying inconve
niences in the administration of
justice, arising from the present
vacancy of the see of Durham, and
XVIII. An Act to authorise the dispo
for preventing the like in future.

XIX. An Act to repeal two Acts of the
sal of unnecessary prisons in England.
parliament of Scotland, relative to
assault and battery pendente lite.

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XX. An Act to continue an Act of the first and second years of his present Majesty, for granting for the term of five years additional stamp duties on certain proceedings in the courts of law in Ireland.

XXI. An Act for the better regulating proceedings on writs of mandamus, in Ireland.

XXII. An Act to enable persons to. continue their compositions for assessed taxes for further periods, and for allowing persons who have not compounded to enter into a composition for a limited term.

XXIII. An Act to repeal the duties and drawbacks of excise upon tawed kid skins, sheep skins, and lamb skins. XXIV. An Act for fixing, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers.

XXV. An Act to continue until the fifth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, an Act for preventing private distillation in Scotland.

XXVI. An Act for continuing to his majesty for one year certain duties on personal estates, offices, and pensions in England, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six.

XXVII. An Act to defray the charge of the pay, clothing, and contingent and other expenses of the disembodied militia in Great Britain and Ireland; and to grant allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers, adjutants, quartermasters, surgeons, assistant surgeons, surgeons mates, and serjeant-majors of militia, until the twenty-fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven.

XXVIII. An Act forexonerating certain estates called Corsica Hall, Alfriston, Maff Alfriston otherwise Maffe Alfryshton, and Dean Place, in the county of Sussex, belonging to John Henry Tilson, esq. from the claims of

the crown. XXIX. An Act to amend the law of Ireland respecting the assignment and sub-letting of lands and tenements. XXX. An Act to amend the several Acts for authorising advances for carrying on public works, and to extend the provisions thereof in certain

cases.

XXXI. An Act to amend an Act passed
in the fifty-second year of the reign
of his late Majesty king George the
Third, so far as the same relates to
the retired allowances of quarter-
masters of cavalry and infantry.
XXXII. An Act to amend an Act for
suppressing or regulating certain
offices therein mentioned, so far as
relates to the board of trade.
XXXIII. An Act to make further
regulations relating to the licensing
of stage coaches.

XXXIV. An Act to amend an Act of
the fifth year of his present Majesty,
for amending the several Acts for the
encouragement and improvement of
the British and Irish fisheries.
XXXV. An Act to enable incapacitated
persons to convey to the commission-
ers and governors of the royal hospital
for seamen at Greenwich, in the
county of Kent, certain premises
situate in the parish of Greenwich in
the said county, and for other pur-
poses relating thereto.

XXXVI. An Act to regulate the service
of the process of the several courts
for the recovery of small debts by
civil bill in Ireland.
XXXVII. An Act to regulate the
appointment of juries in the East
Indies.

XXXVIII. An Act to enable commis

sioners for trying offences upon the
sea, and justices of the peace, to take
examinations touching such offences,
and to commit to safe custody persons
charged therewith,

XXXIX. An Act for funding eight
millions of exchequer bills.
XL. An Act to authorize the lords
commissioners of his Majesty's trea-
sury to advance money out of the
consolidated fund towards the ex-
penses of rebuilding London Bridge.
XLI. An Act to amend the laws for the
recovery of small debts, and the pro-
ceedings for that purpose, in the
manor courts in Ireland.
XLII. An Act to amend the laws in
force in Ireland for preventing the
vexatious impounding of cattle for
trespass or damage feasant.
XLIII. An Act to amend the laws in

force in Ireland relating to convey-
ances and transfers of estates and
funds vested in trustees.

XLIV. An Act to allow, until the tenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, the enrolment

of certain articles of clerkship; to
prevent attornies and others from
being prejudiced in certain cases by
the neglect to take out their annual
certificates; to prohibit the stamping
articles of clerkship after a certain
time; and to extend the period for
taking out certificates after matricula-
tion at the universities.

XLV. An Act for repealing an Act -
passed in the thirty-ninth and fortieth
years of the reign of his late Majesty
king George the Third, intituled An
Act for relief of persons entitled to
entailed estates to be purchased with
trust monies, and for making further
provisions in lieu thereof.
XLVI. An Act for the better regulating
copartnerships of certain bankers in
England; and for amending so much
of an Act of the thirty-ninth and
fortieth years of the reign of his late
Majesty king George the Third, in-
tituled An Act for establishing an
agreement with the governor and
company of the Bank of England, for
advancing the sum of three millions
towards the supply for the service of
the year one thousand eight hundred,
as relates to the same.

XLVII. An Act to allow, until the fifth
day of April, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty, certain bounties
on the exportation from Ireland of
salmon, red herrings, and dried sprats.
XLVIII. An Act to alter and amend
the several laws relating to the cus-
toms.

XLIX. An Act to amend several laws

of excise relating to bonds on excise licences in Ireland, tiles and bricks for draining, oaths on exportation of goods, permits for the removal of tea in Ireland, size of casks in which spirits may be warehoused in Scotland and Ireland, the allowance of duty on starch and soap used in certain manufactures, and the repayment of money advanced by collectors of excise for public works in Ireland.

L. An Act for raising the sum of thirteen millions two hundred thousand pounds by exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six. LI. An Act to confirm sales made by the surveyor general and the commissioners of the land revenue of the crown, under an Act of the fortyeighth year of his late majesty. LII. An Act for defraying the expense

of any additional naval force to be employed in the East Indies. LIII. An Act to regulate the importation of silk goods until the tenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and to encourage the silk manufactures by the repeal of certain duties.

LIV. An Act for the registration of
aliens.

LV. An Act to regulate the manner of
taking the poll at elections of knights
of the shire to serve in parliament for
the county of York.

LVI. An Act to suspend the provisions

of an Act of his late majesty, re-
specting the appointment of writers
in the service of the East India com-
pany, and to authorize the payment
of the allowances of the civil and mi-
litary officers of the said company
dying while absent from India.
LVII. An Act to amend and consolidate

the laws for the relief of insolvent
debtors in England.

LVIII. An Act to amend the laws re-
lating to corps of yeomanry, cavalry,
and volunteers in Great Britain.
LIX. An Act to continue for seven
years, and from thence to the end of
the then next session of parliament,
an Act to the fifty-ninth year of his
late majesty, for facilitating the re-
covery of the wages of seamen in
the merchant service.
LX. An Act to prevent the wilful and

malicious destruction of dwelling
houses in Ireland.

LXI. An Act for the more effectual
administration of justice in cities,
towns corporate, and other local juris-
dictions in Ireland.

LXII. An Act to make provision for
the uniform valuation of lands and
tenements in the several baronies,
parishes, and other divisions of coun-
ties in Ireland, for the purpose of
the more equally levying of the rates
and charges upon such baronies,
parishes, and divisions respectively.
LXIII. An Act to provide for repair-
ing, improving, and rebuilding shire
halls, county halls, and other build-
ings for holding the assizes and grand
sessions, and also judges lodgings,
throughout England and Wales.
LXIV. An Act for improving the ad-
ministration of criminal justice in
England.

LXV. An Act to continue until the
first day of January 1827, and to the

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