"marthen." "An Act for making and repairing a "Road from Soho Hill, in the Parish of Handfworth, ແ to the Walfall Turnpike Road on the Northern Side "of Hamftead Bridge; and alfo another Road from "Brown's Green, to a House called The Friary, all in "the County of Stafford." "An Act for vesting the "fettled and other Eftates of John Pierfon Foote Efquire, " in the Parish of Calftock, in the County of Cornwall, "in Trustees upon Truft to fell and to ftand poffeffed "of the Money arifing from the Sale thereof upon the "Trufts therein mentioned." "An A&t for felling the "Lands and Estate of Appine, fituated in the County "of Argyle, and a Salmon Fishing fituated in the "County of Inverness, which were comprized in a Deed " of Entail made by George late Marquis of Tweeddale, "and the Trustees appointed by George fome time Mar"quis of Tweeddale, deceased, and for investing the "Money arifing by fuch Sale in the Purchase of other "Lands, to be fettled and fecured to the fame Series of "Heirs, and under the fame Conditions and Limitations as are contained in the aforefaid Deed of Entail." "An Act to enable the Rector of the Parish and "Parish Church of Saint Mary Woolwich, in the "County of Kent, for the Time being, to grant "Building Leafes of the Glebe Lands belonging to "the faid Rectory, and to fell the present Rectory "House and Garden, and to build a new Rectory "House." "An Act for changing the Site of Hol"land Fen Chapel, and for authorizing the Erection "and Establishment thereof in the Parish of Fofdyke, "in the County of Lincoln, instead of in the Parish of Algarkirke, in the faid County." "An Act for en"abling the Minister and Churchwardens of the Parish " of Allhallows Barking, in the City of London, to grant "a Lease of certain Estates belonging to the fame Parish, "pursuant to an Agreement entered into for that Pur"pose." "An Act for enclofing Lands in the Hamlet "and Chapelry of Wheatley, in the Parish of Cuddefden, " in the County of Oxford." "An Act for enclofing "Lands in the Parish of Hayes, in the County of Mid. dlefex, and for extinguishing the Tithes in the faid "Parish." "An Act for enclosing Lands in the Parishes "of Maxey-with-Deepingate, Northborough, Glinton-with"Peakirk, Etton, and Kelpflone, in the County of North"ampton." "An Act for enclofing Lands in the Parish "of Shobdon, Aymeftrey, and Lingen, in the County of "Hereford, and for extinguishing Tithes in thofe Pa"rishes." "An Act for enclofing Goring Common or Goring Heath, and certain Waste Lands in the Parish "of Goring, in the County of Oxford." "An A&t for "enclosing Lands in the Parish of Bredwardine, and "the Township of Dorfton, in the Parish of Dorfton, in "the County of Hereford." "An Act for enclofing "Lands in the Parishes of Flitton-cum-Silfoe and Pullox"bill, in the County of Bedford." "An A&t for enclofing Lands in the Township and Manor of Leaton, "in the Parish of Saint Mary in Shrewsbury, in the "County of Salop." "An Act for enclosing Lands in "the Manor or Lordship of West Kington, in the Parish "of Weft Kington, in the County of Wilts." "An A&t "for enclosing Lands in the Parishes of Forncett Saint "Peter and Forncett Saint Mary, in the County of Norfolk." "An Act for enclofing Lands in the Tithing "of Weft Melbury, in the Parish of Cann Saint Rumbold, "in the County of Dorfet." "An Act for enclofing "Lands in the Township of Skelton, in the Parish of "Howden, in the East Riding of the County of York." "An A&t for enclofing, and reducing to a Stint, feveral "Commons and Waste Grounds within the Township "and Manor of Auftwick, in the Parish of Clapham, in "the Weft Riding of the County of York." "An Act "for enclosing Lands in the Parishes of Strumpfhaw and Surlingham, in the County of Norfolk." "An A& "for enclofing Lands in the Parish of Whittlesford, in "the County of Cambridge." "An A&t for enclosing "Lands in the Parishes of Bishopfton and Manfell Lacy, "otherwife Much Manfell, in the County of Hereford." "An Act for enclofing Lands in or appertaining to the "Manor and Township of Birkin, in the Weft Riding of the County of York." "An Act for enclofing

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"Lands in the Township, Hamlet, or Manor of "Stanton, in the County of Derby." And albeit the "faid Acts by you Our faid Subjects, the Lords and "Commons, in this Our present Parliament assembled,

are fully agreed and confented unto, yet nevertheless, "the fame are not of Force and Effect in the Law without "Our Royal Affent given and put to the faid Acts: "And, forafmuch as for divers Caufes and Confidera"tions, We cannot conveniently at this Time be present " in Our Royal Perfon in the Higher House of Our said "Parliament, being the Place accustomed to give Our Royal Affent to fuch Acts as have been agreed upon by you Our faid Subjects, the Lords and Commons, "We have therefore caused these Our Letters Patent "to be made, and have figned the fame, and by the "fame do give and put Our Royal Affent to the faid "Acts, and to all Articles, Claufes, and Provisions "therein contained, and have fully agreed and affented "to the faid Acts; Willing that the faid Acts, and every

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Article, Clause, Sentence, and Provifion therein con"tained, from henceforth fhall be of the fame Strength, "Force, and Effect, as if We had been perfonally pre"fent in the faid Higher House, and had openly and publicly, in the Prefence of you all, affented to the "fame: And We do, by these Presents, declare and notify the fame Our Royal Affent, as well to you the "Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, afore"faid, as to all others whom it may concern; com"manding alfo, by these Presents, Our right trusty and "well-beloved Counsellor John Lord Eldon, Our Chan"cellor of that Part of Our United Kingdom of Great "Britain and Ireland called Great Britain, to seal these "Our Letters Patent with Our Great Seal of Our "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; and "alfo commanding Our most dear and entirely beloved "Son and most faithful Counsellor George Prince of "Wales; Our moft dear Sons and faithful Counsellors "Frederick Duke of York, William Duke of Clarence, "Edward Duke of Kent, Erneft Duke of Cumberland, "Auguftus Duke of Suffex, Adolphus Duke of Cam"bridge; Our moft dear Nephew and faithful Coun"fellor William Frederick Duke of Gloucester; the most "Reverend Father in God Our right trufty and well"beloved Counsellor Charles Archbishop of Canterbury, "Primate and Metropolitan of all England; Our faid "Chancellor of that Part of Our United Kingdom of "Great Britain and Ireland called Great Britain; Our " right trusty and right well-beloved Coufins and Coun"fellors John Jeffreys Earl Camden, President of Our "Council; John Earl of Westmorland, Keeper of Our "Privy Seal; Our right trufty and right entirely be"loved Coufins and Counsellors James Duke of Mont"rofe, Master of Our Horfe; William Henry Duke of "Portland; Our right trufty and entirely beloved "Coufins and Counsellors James Marquis of Salisbury, "Francis Marquis of Hertford; Our right trusty and

right well-beloved Coufins and Counsellors Heneage "Earl of Aylesford, Steward of Our Household; George

Earl of Dartmouth, Chamberlain of Our Household; "George Earl of Winchilfea and Nottingham, Groom of "Our Stole; Philip Earl of Chesterfield, Robert Earl of "Buckinghamshire, William Earl Fitzwilliam, George "John Earl Spencer, John Earl of Chatham, Henry Earl "Bathurst, Henry Earl of Carnarvon, Robert Banks "Earl of Liverpool, One of Our Principal Secre"taries of State; John Earl of Saint Vincent, Tho

mas Earl of Chichester; Our right trufty and well"beloved Coufin and Counsellor Henry Viscount Sid"mouth; Our right trufty and well-beloved Coun"fellors Henry Richard Lord Holland, Dudley Lord "Harrowby, Thomas Lord Walfingham, William Wynd"ham Lord Grenville, William Lord Auckland, Henry "Lord Mulgrave, John Lord Redefdale, Edward Lord "Ellenborough, Our Chief Juftice affigned to hold "Pleas before Us; Charles Lord Barham, and Thomas "Lord Erfkine; or any Three or more of them, to "declare and notify this Our Royal Affent in Our "Absence in the faid Higher Houfe, in the Prefence "of you the faid Lords and the Commons of Our Par"liament, there to be affembled for that Purpose; and

"the Growth or Produce of any Country, until Six "Months after the Ratification of a Definitive Treaty of "Peace."

9. "An Act for making Sugar and Coffee of Martinique and Mariegalante liable to Duty on Importation as Sugar and Coffee not of the British Plantations." 10. "An A&t for the Abolition of certain Holidays, "and for altering and extending the Time for keeping open the Chief Office of Excife."

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By the King Himself, figned with His own "Hand.

"BATHURST and BATHURST."

Then the Lord Chancellor faid:

"In Obedience to His Majefty's Commands, and by "virtue of the Commiffion which has been now read, we do declare and notify to you the Lords Spiritual "and Temporal, and Commons, in Parliament affem"bled, That His Majefty hath given His Royal Affent "to the feveral Acts in the Commiflion mentioned; and "the Clerks are required to pass the fame in the usual "Form and Words.

Then the Clerk Affiftant, having received the Money Bill from the Hands of the Speaker, brought it to the Table, where the Deputy Clerk of the Crown read the Title of that and the other Bills to be paffed, feverally, as follow; (videlicet)

1. "An A&t for raifing the Sum of Fourteen mil"lions fix hundred thousand Pounds, by way of An"nuities."

To this Bill the Royal Affent was pronounced by the Clerk Affiftant, in thefe Words; (videlicet)

"Le Roy remercie fes bons Sujets, accepté leur "Benevolence, et ainfi le veult."

2. "An Act for repealing the Duties on the Materials "ufed in making Spread Window Glafs and Crown "Glafs, and for granting other Duties in lieu thereof; "and for the better Collection of the said Duties."

3. "An Act to amend an Act paffed in the last Sef"fion of Parliament, for enabling the Commiffioners "for the Reduction of the National Debt to grant Life "Annuities."

4. "An Act to amend an A&t paffed in the Forty"fixth Year of His prefent Majefty, for the Redemption "and Sale of the Land Tax, and to make further Pro"vifion for exonerating fmall Livings and Charitable "Inftitutions from the Land Tax."

5. "An Act for giving Jurifdiction to Juftices of the "Peace to hear and determine Profecutions for Penalties incurred by any Offence against the Laws relating to the Revenue of Cuftoms; and alfo requiring all "Goods Cultomable and not Excifeable, feized by any "Police or Peace Officer, to be brought to the Cuftem "Houfe Warehoufe in London, within a certain Period." 6. "An Act to permit the Trade between Great "Britain and the United States of America to be carried "on in Ships or Veffels belonging to the Inhabitants of "the faid States."

7. "An Act to amend feveral Acts for the Preven❝tion of Smuggling; for better fecuring the Duties on "Coals, Culm, and Cinders; and for permitting the "Exportation of Salt, Pepper, and Wine, from Guernsey "or Jerfey to Sark, in fmall Packages."

8. "An Act for allowing the Importation, from any "Port in Europe or Africa, of Goods or Commodities VOL. XLVII.

II. "An Act for improving the Quality of Beer in "Ireland, by further preventing the Ufe of unmalted "Corn, or of any deleterious or unwholefome Ingredients therein; and for the better fecuring the Collec❝tion of the Malt Duties in Ireland."

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12. "An Act to amend an Act paffed in the Fortyeighth Year of His prefent Majefty, to enable His Majesty's Poft Mafter General of Ireland to purchase "Premises for the Enlargement of the General Post "Office in the City of Dublin."

13. "An Act for completing the Militia of Ireland." 14. "An Act for the Application of the Purchase. Money of certain Lands, taken from the Poffeflions "of the See of Winchester, under the Provifions of an "Act of the Forty-fixth Year of His prefent Majefty, “intituled, “An Act for vefting certain Meffuages, "Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, in Trustees, "for better fecuring His Majefty's Docks, Ships, and "Stores at Portsmouth, and for extending the Works "and Lines at Dover."

15. "An Act to explain and render more effectual an Act paffed in the Parliament of Ireland, in the "Thirty-fixth Year of His prefent Majefty's Reign, "for the Encouragement and Relief of Friendly So"cieties."

16. An Act to explain and amend the Law of "Baftardy, fo far as relates to indemnifying Parishes in refpect thereof."

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17. "An Act to indemnify Perfons who have in"advertently printed, publifhed, or difperfed Papers "or Books, without a full Defcription of the Place of "Abode of the Printers thereof, from Penalties incurred "under an Act of the Thirty-ninth Year of His Majefty's Reign."

18." An Act to continue until the Twenty-fifth Day " of March One thoufand eight hundred and eleven, certain Acts of the Parliament of Ireland for the Improvement of the City of Dublin, by making wide "and convenient Paffages through the fame, and for "regulating the Coal Trade thereof, and for other Pur"poles."

19. "An Act for enabling the Kennet and Avon "Canal Company, to raise a fufficient Sum of Money "to complete the faid Canal, and for amending the fe"veral Acts for making the fame."

20. "An Act for erecting a new Gaol and Houfe "of Correction and new Courts of Juftice, in and for "the County Palatine of Durham, and purchafing " proper Scites for the fame; and for difpofing of the "old Gaol and Houfe of Correction and Courts of "Juftice there; and making an equal County Rate for "thofe Purpofes."

21. "An Act for paving, cleanfing, lighting, watch"ing, and otherwife improving the Streets and other public Paffages and Places in the Town and Borough "of Ofweftry, in the County of Salop."

22." An Act for the more eafy and fpeedy Recovery of Small Debts, within the Parish of Merthyr Tidfil, and other Places therein mentioned, in the "Counties of Glamorgan, Brecon, and Monmouth.” 23. "An Act for building a Bridge across the River "Thames, from or near Vauxhall Turnpike, in the Pa"rifh of Saint Mary Lambeth, in the County of Surrey, "to the oppofite Shore in the Parish of Saint John, "in the City and Liberty of Westminster, and County "of Middlefex, and for making convenient Roads "thereto."

improving the Avenues or Approaches to the faid Bridge."

25. "An Act for taking down and rebuilding certain "Parts of North Bridge and Tickford Bridge, in the "Parishes of Newport Pagnell and Lathbury, in the County of Buckingham; and for widening and making "more commodious the faid Bridges, and the Ap"proaches thereto."

26. "An Act for repairing and maintaining the "Road from Burton-upon-Trent, in the County of Stafford, to Abbotts Bromley; and from Bagots Bromley "to the prefent Turnpike Road at or near Shirley Wich, "in the faid County."

27." An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers "of an Act of His prefent Majefty, for repairing the "Road from Carmarthen to Lampeter-pont-ftephen, in "the County of Cardigan, and other Roads in the "faid Act mentioned, fo far as the fame relate to the "Carmarthen District of Roads; and for confolidating "in the fame Act and Truft certain other Roads in the "faid County of Carmarthen.'

28. "An Act for making and repairing a Road from "Sobo Hill, in the Parish of Handfworth, to the Walfall "Turnpike Road on the Northern Side of Hamstead Bridge; and alfo another Road from Browne's Green, "to a House called The Friary, all in the County of Stafford."

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To thefe Bills the Royal Affent was pronounced, feverally, by the Clerk Affiftant, in thefe Words; (videlicet)

"Le Roy le veult."

29. "An Act for vefting the fettled and other Eftates "of John Peirfon Foote Efquire, in the Parish of Calftock, "in the County of Cornwall, in Trustees upon Trust to "fell, and to ftand poffeffed of the Money arifing from "the Sale thereof, upon the Trufts therein mentioned."

30. "An Act for felling the Lands and Eftate of Ap"pine, fituate in the County of Argyle, and a Salmon Fishing fituated in the County of Inverness, which "were comprized in a Deed of Entail, made by George "late Marquis of Tweeddale, and the Trustees appointed by George fome time Marquis of Tweedale de"ceafed; and for invefting the Money arifing by fuch "Sale in the Purchase of other Lands, to be fettled "and fecured to the fame Series of Heirs, and under "the fame Conditions and Limitations as are contained "in the aforefaid Deed of Entail."

41. An A&t for enclofing Lands in the Township "and Manor of Leaton, in the Parish of Saint Mary in "Shrewsbury, in the County of Salop."

42. "An A&t for enclosing Lands in the Manor or Lordship of Weft Kington, in the Parish of Weft Kington, "in the County of Wilts."

43. "An Act for enclofing Lands in the Parishes of "Forncett Saint Peter and Forncett Saint Mary, in the "County of Norfolk."

44. "An Act for enclofing Lands in the Tithing of "West Melbury, in the Parish of Cann Saint Rumbold, "in the County of Dorfet."

45. "An Act for enclofing Lands in the Township "of Skelton, in the Parish of Howden, in the East "Riding of the County of York."

46. "An Act for enclosing and reducing to a Stint "feveral Commons and Wafte Grounds within the "Township and Manor of Auftwick, in the Parish of Clapham, in the Weft Riding of the County of

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51. "An Act for enclofing Lands in the Township, "Hamlet, or Manor of Stanton, in the County of "Derby."

To thefe Bills the Royal Affent was pronounced, feverally, by the Clerk Affiftant, in these Words; (videlicet) "Soit fait comme il eft defiré."

Then the Commons withdrew. The House was adjourned during Pleasure : The Houfe was refumed.

Hodie 3 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act for Coffee Roaftallowing Dealers to roaft their own Coffee, on certain ing Bill: "Conditions."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill fhall "pafs ?"

It was refolved in the Affirmative.

Bill:

Hodie 3a vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, "An Act for Gunpowder, vesting in the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by Advice &c. (Ireland) "of the Privy Council, the Power of prohibiting the "Exportation and carrying Coaftwife of Gunpowder, Saltpetre, Arms, Ammunition, and Naval Stores." The Question was put, "Whether this Bill fhall "pafs?"

It was refolved in the Affirmative.

Hodie 3 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An Act to Affeffed provide for the better Collection of the Duties and Taxes (Ire "Taxes on Carriages, Servants, Horses, and Dogs, in land) Bill:

"Ireland."

Hodie 3 vice lecta eft Billa, intituled, " An Act for Lotteries granting to His Majefty a Sum of Money, to be Bill: "raised by Lotteries."

The Question was put, "Whether this Bill fhall
"pafs?"

It was refolved in the Affirmative.