A
TABLE
OF THE
Public and Private Statutes,
CONTAINING
The TITLES of the ACTS of the twenty-first Year of the Reign of George III.
PUBLIC ACTS.
Anno 21 Georgii III.
1. AN Act to extend the Provisions contained in an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament (intituled, An Act to prevent any Mischief or Inconvenience which may arise to Sheriffs, Gaolers, Suitors, Prisoners, or others, by the Prisoners in several Gaols in the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey, and the City of London, having been set at Liberty during the late Tumults and Insurrections), to Persons arrested and bailed since the Destruction of the said Gaols, and before the same shall be repaired, or other Prisons substituted in Lieu thereof.
2. An Act for further continuing an Act, made in the seventeenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act to impower his Majesty to secure and detain Persons charged with, or suspected of, the Crime of High Treason, committed in any of his Majesty's Colonies or Plantations in America, or on the High Seas, or the Crime of Piracy.
3. An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.
4. An Act for continuing and granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder, and Perry, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.
5. An Act for extending the Provisions of three Acts made in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth Years of his present Majesty's Reign, with respect to bringing Prize Goods into this Kingdom, to Prizes taken from the States General of the United Provinces; for declaring what Goods shall be deemed Military or Ship Stores; for regulating the Sale of and ascertaining the Duties upon East India Goods condemned as Prize in the Port of London; for permitting the Purchasers of Prize Goods condemned abroad to import such Goods into this Kingdom, under the like Regulations and Advantages as are granted by Law to Captors themselves; and for reducing the Duties on Foreign Prize Tobacco.
6. An Act for further continuing an Act, made in the nineteenth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for allowing the Importation of fine organzined Italian Thrown Silk in any Ships or Vessels, for a limited Time.
7. An Act to explain and amend an Act, made in the nineteenth Year of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for augmenting the Militia.
8. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.
9. An Act for the Regulation of his Majesty's Marine Forces while on Shore.
10. An Act for making Compensation to the Proprietors of certain Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in the Counties of Kent and Essex, purchased in pursuance of two several Acts of Parliament, passed in the twentieth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, for securing his Majesty's Docks, Ships, and Stores, at Sheerness and Chatham; and for better defending the Passage of the River Thames at Gravesend and Tilbury Fort.
11. An Act for the better Supply of Mariners and Seamen to serve in his Majesty's Ships of War, and on board Merchant Ships, and other Trading Ships and Vessels.
12. An Act to continue the Duty of one Farthing per Chalder on Coals, granted by an Act of the twenty-third Year of the Reign of King George the Second, for the more effectual repairing and maintaining the Piers and Harbour of Whitby, in the County of York.
13. An Act for rendering effectual an Act, made in the eighteenth Year of his present Majesty, for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor within the Hundred of Stow, in the County of Suffolk.
14. An Act for raising a certain Sum by way of Annuities,
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