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xxxiv The TITLES of the STATUTES


Bread Corn, by directing the manner of applying parish relief, until the sixth day of November one thousand eight hundred and one, and from thence until the end of six weeks after the meeting of the then next session of parliament. Page 552

13. An Act to enable commissioners to purchase certain buildings for the accommodation of the two houses of parliament. 558

14. An Act for raising a certain sum of money by loans or exchequer bills, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and one; and for appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parliament. 560

15. An Act for taking an account of the population of Great Britain, and of the increase or diminution thereof. Ibid.

16. An Act to prevent, until the sixth day of November one thousand eight hundred and one, and from thence to the end of six weeks from the commencement of the then next session of parliament, the manufacturing of any fine flour from wheat, or other grain, and the making of any bread solely from the fine flour of wheat; and to repeal an act passed in the thirty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, for permitting bakers to make and sell certain sorts of bread, and to make more effectual provision for the same. 568

17. An Act to prohibit, until the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and one, and from thence to the end of six weeks next after the commencement of the then next session of parliament, any person or persons from selling any bread which shall not have been baked twenty-four hours. 575

18. An Act to permit, until the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and one, the importation of Swedish herrings into Great Britain. 576

19. An Act to remove doubts arising upon the construction of an act of this session of parliament, intituled An act for granting bounties on the importation of wheat, barley, rye, oats, pease, beans, and Indian corn, and of barley, rye, oat, and Indian meal, and wheaten flour and rice. Ibid.

20. An Act to revive and continue until the expiration of six weeks after the commencement of the next session of parliament, and amend so much of an act of the last session of parliament, as relates to the reducing and better collecting the duties payable on the importation of starch; and to continue for the same time several laws relating to the enabling his Majesty to permit goods to be imported into this kingdom in neutral ships: to the authorising his Majesty to make regulations respecting the trade to the Cape of Good Hope; and to the preventing offences in obstructing, destroying, or damaging ships, and in obstructing seamen and others from pursuing their lawful occupations. 577

21. An Act for allowing, until the fifteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and one, the use of salt, duty free, in the preserving of fish in bulk or in barrels; for protecting persons engaged in such fisheries from being impressed into his Majesty's service; for discontinuing the bounty payable on white herrings exported; and for allowing a bounty on pilchards now cured, whether exported or sold for home consumption. Ibid.

22. An Act to authorise his Majesty to appoint commissioners for the more effectual examination of accounts of publick expenditure for his Majesty's forces in the West Indies during the present war. 582

23. An Act for making the port of Amsterdam in the island of Curacao a free port. Page 583

24. An Act for continuing, until six months after the conclusion of a general peace, three acts, made in the thirty-third and thirty-eighth years of his present Majesty's reign, for establishing regulations respecting aliens arriving in this kingdom, or resident therein, in certain cases. 584

25. An Act for allowing the importation of undressed hemp from any of the countries that lie within the limits of the exclusive trade of the East India company free of duty. Ibid.

26. An Act for continuing, until the first day of June one thousand eight hundred and one, the several acts for regulating the turnpike roads in Great Britain, which expire at the end of the present session of parliament. 585

27. An Act for extending the time for the payment of certain sums of money advanced by way of loan to several persons connected with and trading to the islands of Grenada and Saint Vincent. Ibid.

28. An Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual, the several acts made in the thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth years of the reign of his present Majesty, and in the last session of parliament, for the redemption and purchase of the land tax. 587

29. An Act for further continuing, until the first day of August one thousand eight hundred and seven, an act, made in the thirty-seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled An act for the better prevention and punishment of attempts to seduce persons serving in his Majesty's forces, by sea or land, from their duty and allegiance to his Majesty, or to incite them to mutiny or disobedience. 590

30. An Act for explaining and amending an act passed in the last session of parliament, intituled An act for erecting a lazaret on Chetney Hill, in the county of Kent, and for reducing into one act the laws relating to quarantine; and for making further provisions therein, as far as regards the payment of the tonnage duty in the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark, or Man. Ibid.

31. An Act to indemnify such persons as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments; and to indemnify justices of the peace, or others, who have omitted to register or deliver in their qualifications within the time directed by law, and for extending the time limited for those purposes, until the twenty-fifth day of December one thousand eight hundred and one; to indemnify members and officers, in cities, corporations, and borough towns, whose admissions have been omitted to be stamped according to law, or having been stamped, have been lost or mislaid, and for allowing them, until the twenty-fifth day of December one thousand eight hundred and one, to provide admissions duly stamped; to permit such persons as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the first day of Michaelmas term one thousand eight hundred and one; and for indemnifying deputy lieutenants and officers of the militia, who have neglected to transmit descriptions of their qualifications to the clerics of the peace within the time directed by law, and for extending the time limited for that purpose, until the first day of September one thousand eight hundred and one. Ibid.

32. An Act for further continuing, until six Weeks after the Commencement of the next Session of Parliament,

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