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The TITLES of the STATUTES.

the Exchequer, all such Estates as they have found to be given to Popish or superstitious Uses.

23. An Act for repairing the several Roads leading from the Town of Ledbury in the County of Hereford, to the several Places therein mentioned.

24. An Act for repairing the Road from Wendover to the Town of Buckingham in the County of Bucks.

25. An Act for laying a Duty of two Pennies Scots, or one sixth Part of a Penny Sterling, upon every Scots Pint of Ale or Beer that shall be brewed for Sale, vended or tapped within the Town of Jedburgh, and Privileges thereof, for paying the public Debts of the said Town, and for supplying the same with fresh Water, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

26. An Act for repairing the Road from Saint Giles's Pound to Kilbourne Bridge, in the County of Middlesex.

27. An Act for raising a Sum not exceeding five hundred thousand Pounds, by charging Annuities at the Rate of five Pounds per Centum per Annum upon the Civil List Revenues, till redeemed by the Crown; and for enabling his Majesty, his Heirs or successors, (by causing such a Deduction to be made as therein is mentioned) to make good to the Civil List the Payments which shall have been made upon the said Annuities; and for borrowing Money upon certain Lottery tickets; and for discharging the Corporations for Assurances of Part of the Money which they were obliged to pay to his Majesty; for making good a Deficiency to the East India Company.

28. An Act for raising Money upon the Estates of the late Sub-Governor, Deputy-Governor, Director, Cashier, Deputy-Cashier and Accountant of the South-Sea Company, and of John Aislabie Esq; and likewise of James Craggs Senior Esq; deceased, towards making good the great Loss and Damage sustained by the said Company; and for disabling such of the said Persons as are living, to hold any Office or Place of Trust under the Crown, or to sit or vote in Parliament for the future; and for other Purposes in the said Act expressed.

29. An Act for the King's most Gracious, General and Free Pardon.

30. An Act for appointing Commissioners to examine, state, and determine the Debts due to the Army.

31. An Act for explaining and making more effectual the several Acts concerning Bankrupts.

32. An Act to explain and amend the Act of the Twelfth Year of her late Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for repairing the Highway or Road from the Stones-End in the Parish of St. Leonard Shoreditch in the County of Middlesex to the furthermost Part of the Northern Road in the Parish of Enfield in the same County, next to the Parish of Cheshunt in the County of Hertford.

PRIVATE ACTS.

Anno 7 Georgii.

1. AN Act for naturalising John Robethon, and George Robethon his Son.

2. An Act to naturalise Joachim Peterssen, Henry Mailman, Benedict Coep, and John Henry Ott.

3. An Act to enclose the common Field of Lighthorne, and a Common called Ligthorne heath, in the County of Warwick.

4. An Act for draining, improving, and enclosing the Common called Stokesby-Common in the Parish of Stokesby in the County of Norfolk.

5. An Act to enable the Right Honourable Heneage Earl of Aylesford, to sell certain Estates of Leasehold and Inheritance in the County of Kent, comprised in his Marriage settlement; and to purchase another Estate in the County of Leicester of better Value, to be settled to the same Uses.

6. An Act for the Naturalisation of Isabella Countess of Denbigh, Wife of William Earl of Denbigh.

7. An Act for naturalising John Hartcup.

8. An Act for naturalising Gilbert de Flines, Christian Frederick Zincke, and others.

9. An Act to enable the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Parker, Baron of Macclesfield, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, John Sutton Cleric, Edward Airs and Sarah his Wife, and Matthew Hawes and Sarah his Wife, for and on the Behalf of themselves, and of their Infant Children, to make several Exchanges of Lands and Tenements, and to perform several Agreements touching the same.

10. An Act to vest the See and Inheritance of diverse Messuages, Lands, and Hereditaments of William late Marquis of Halifax in Trustees, to be sold together with a Term of five hundred Years by him devised to his Executors in Trust, for the better Performance of his Will.

11. An Act for Settling the Estates of Richard late Earl Rivers deceased, pursuant to an Agreement made between Frederick Earl of Rochford and Bessy Countess of Rockford his Wife, James Barry Earl of Barrymore in the Kingdom of Ireland, and Lady Penelope Barry his Daughter, and John now Earl Rivers, subject to the Payment of the Debts and Legacies of the said late Earl Rivers, remaining unpaid; and for other Purposes in the said Act mentioned.

12. An Act for Sale of Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Robert Lord Romney in the County of Norfolk, and for settling other Lands of greater Value in the County of Kent, already purchased, to the same Uses.

13. An Act to enable any Corporations within the university of Oxford, or any other Persons, to sell and convey any messuages and Ground within the said University, for building a Library, pursuant to the Will of John Radcliffe, Doctor in Physic; for impowering any Colleges in the said University, to sell or convey any Ground or Houses to each other, for the Purposes therein mentioned.

14. An Act to vest the Estate of Sir Charles Carteret, Bart. deceased, in Trustees, for Payment of his Debts, and for settling the Remainder to the same Uses in his Will,

15. An Act to enable his Majesty to grant the Inheritance of certain Estates therein mentioned, held by Lease from the Crown, which have been long in the Family of Sir William Pulteney deceased, in which more than one hundred Years are yet to come, to Trustees, upon a full consideration to be paid for the same, as shall be valued by proper Officers of the Crown, to the End the same may be settled according to the Uses directed in the Will of the said Sir William Pulteney.

16. An Act for vesting in Trustees a Moiety of diverse Manors and Lands in Essex, belonging to Thomas Paget Esq; and Mary his Wife, to enable them to convey the same according to Articles for Sale thereof.

17. An Act to enable Herbert Perrot Packington Esq; only Son of Sir John Packington Baronet, to acknowledge Fines, and suffer Recoveries, while he is under the Age. of one and twenty Years.

18. An Act for vesting certain Lands and Tenements in the County of Gloucester, the Estate of Henry Harrington Gent. in Trustees, to be sold, and with the Money arising thereby to purchase other Lands of greater yearly Value, to be settled to the same Uses as the Estate to be sold is settled, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

19. An Act to enable Harry Bridges Esq; to sell the Manors

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