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XXI. An Act to amend an Act for the more effectual administration of the office of justice of the peace in and near the metropolis. XXII. An Act to regulate the qualification and the manner of enrolling jurors in Scotland, and of choosing jurors on criminal trials there; and to unite counties for the purposes of trial in cases of high treason in Scotland.

XXIII. An Act for the better regulation of the sheriff and stewart and Burgh courts of Scotland. XXIV. An Act for the more easy recovery of small debts in the sheriff' courts in Scotland.

XXV. An Act for defining the rights of capital convicts who receive pardon, and of convicts after having been punished for clergyable felonies; for placing clerks in orders on the same footing, with other persons, as to felonies; and for limiting the effect of the benefit of clergy.

XXVI. An Act for the consolidation

of the Royal Naval Asylum with the Royal Hospital for seamen at Greenwich, in the county of Kent. XXVII. An Act for extending to Scotland certain provisions of an Act for the relief of the poor, in so far as the same relate to parochial relief to Chelsea and other pensioners. XXVIII. An Act for granting rates of postage for the conveyance of letters and packets between Great Britain and Ireland, by way of Liverpool.

XXIX. An Act to repeal an Act

made in the second year of the reign of King William and Queen Mary, for the discouraging the importation of thrown silk.

XXX. An Act to amend an Act of the fourth year of his present majesty's reign, for the better administration of justice in the court of Chancery in Ireland.

XXXI. 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 1826. XXXII. An Act to provide for the

application of monies arising in certain cases of assessments for land tax in Great Britain.

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XXXIII. An Act to repeal certain Acts relating to the governor and company of merchants of England trading to the Levant seas, and the duties payable to them; and to authorize the transfer and disposal of the possessions and property of the said governor and company, for the public service.

XXXIV. An Act to empower the commissioners of his majesty's treasury to purchase a certain annuity in respect of duties of customs levied in the Isle of Man, and any reserved sovereign rights in the said Island belonging to John duke of Atholl.

XXXV. An Act to render more effectual the several Acts for authorizing advances for carrying on public works, so far as relates to Ireland.

XXXVI. An Act for enabling the corporation of Pembroke to relinquish and convey to the commissioners of his majesty's navy the right of letting the stalls, sittings, and other conveniences in the market established in the town of Pembroke dock, and the right to the rents, tolls, and fees thereof. XXXVII. An Act to provide for the future assimilation of the duties of excise upon sweets or made wines, upon mead and metheglin, upon vinegar, and upon cyder and perry, in Great Britain and Ireland, and to continue the duty of excise on sweets or made wines in Great Britain until the fifth day of January 1826. XXXVIII. An Act for extending the jurisdiction of the commissioners acting in execution of an Act of the fifth year of his present majesty, for paving and regulating the Regent's park, together with the new street from thence to Pall Mall; and for other purposes relating thereto. XXXIX. An Act for granting certain powers and authorities to a company, to be incorporated by charter, to be called The Van Diemen's Land Company," for the cultivation and improvement of waste lands in his majesty's island of Van Diemen's Land, and for other purposes relating thereto.

XL. An Act to enable justices of the peace in England, in certain cases, to borrow money on mortgage of the rate of the county, riding or place, for which such justices shall be then acting.

XLI. An Act to repeal the stamp duties payable in Great Britain and Ireland upon the transfer of property in ships and vessels, and upon bonds and debentures required to be given in relation to the duties, drawbacks, and bounties of customs or excise; and to grant other duties of stamps on such bonds and debentures. XLII. An Act for the better regulation of co-partnerships of certain bankers in Ireland.

XLIII. An Act to amend and ren

der more effectual an Act made in the reign of King Charles the First, for impounding of distresses in Ireland.

XLIV. An Act for granting to his

majesty rates of postage on the conveyance of letters and packets to and from Colombia and Mexico. XLV. An Act to allow, until the fifth day of July 1825, the enrolment of articles of clerkship to solicitors and attornies in England, and the making and filing of affidavits relating thereto, in certain cases, where the same may have been omitted or neglected.

XLVI. An Act to prevent articled clerks of attornies, and others, in Great Britain, from being prejudiced by the neglect of such attornies, and others, in omitting to take out their annual certificates.

XLVII. An Act for restricting the

punishment of leasing-making, se dition, and blasphemy, in Scotland. XLVIII. An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the thirty-ninth and fortieth years of King George the third, for the recovery of small debts in Scotland.

XLIX. An Act for encouraging the capture or destruction of piratical ships and vessels.

L. An Act for consolidating and amending the laws relative to jurors and juries.

LI. An Act for the amendment of the laws with respect to special juries, and to trials in counties of cities and towns, and towns corporate, in Ireland.

LII. An Act to amend an Act of the

last session of parliament, for amending former Acts relating to presentments by grand juries for payment of the salaries of treasurers and public officers of the several counties in Ireland.

LIII. An Act for limiting the time within which inquisitions of lunacy, idiotcy, and non compos mentis, may be traversed, and for making other regulations in the proceedings pending a traverse.

LIV. An Act to amend an Act of the first and second years of his present majesty, for the establishment of asylums for the lunatic poor in Ireland.

LV. An Act to regulate the proceedings as to sealing of writs in the court of Exchequer in Ireland. LVI. An Act to amend two Acts for removing difficulties in the con

viction of offenders stealing property in mines and from corporate bodies. LVII. An Act for the amendment of the law respecting the settlement of the poor, as far as regards renting tenements and paying parochial

taxes.

LVIII. An Act for providing equivalent rates of excise duties, allowances, and drawbacks on beer and malt, and on spirits, made in Scotland or Ireland, according to the measure of the new imperial standard gallon.

LIX. An Act to provide for the extinction of feudal and seignioral rights and burthens on lands held à Titre de Fief and à Titre de Cens, in the province of Lower Canada; and for the gradual conversion of those tenures into the tenure of free and common soccage; and for other purposes relating to the said pro

vince.

LX. An Act to amend an Act of the

fourth year of his present majesty's reign, for the better administration of justice in the equity side of the court of Exchequer in Ireland. LXI. An Act to amend two Acts of the fifty-eighth year of his late majesty, for regulating the payment of regimental debts, and the distribution of the effects of officers and soldiers dying in service, and the receipt of sums due to soldiers; and of the fourth year of his present majesty, for punishing mutiny and desertion of officers and soldiers in

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the service of the East India company. LXII. An Act to amend an Act of the Scottish parliament, relative to the aliment of poor prisoners. LXIII. An Act to make further provisions for the regulation of cotton mills and factories, and for the better preservation of the health of young persons employed therein. LXIV. An Act to alter for one year,

and until the end of the then next session of parliament, the duty on wheat the produce of the British possessions in North America. LXV. An Act to allow, until the fifteenth day of August 1825, the entry of warehoused corn, grain, and wheaten flour for home consumption, on payment of duty. LXVI. An Act for explaining and amending an Act of the sixth year of the reign of her majesty Queen Anne, intituled "An Act to make further provision for electing and summoning sixteen peers of Scotland to sit in the house of peers in the parliament of Great Britain, and for trying peers for offences committed in Scotland, and for the further regulating of voters in elections of members to serve in parliament, so far as relates to the trial of peers for offences committed in Scotland. LXVII. An Act to alter and amend an Act passed in the seventh year of the reign of his majesty King James the First, intituled "An Act that all such as are to be naturalized or restored in blood shall first receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, and the oath of allegiance and the oath of supremacy." LXVIII. An Act to regulate the conveyance of printed votes and proceedings in parliament, and printed newspapers, by packet boats between Great Britain and Ireland, and the British colonies, and also in the United Kingdom. LXIX. An Act for punishing offences committed by transports kept to labour in the colonies; and better regulating the powers of justices of the peace in New South Wales. LXX. An Act for raising the sum of ten millions five hundred thousand pounds by Exchequer bills, for the service of the year 1825. LXXI. An Act to enable his majesty

to grant an annual sum to his royal

highness Ernest Augustus duke of Cumberland, for the purpose of enabling his said royal highness to provide for the support and education of his highness prince George Frederick Alexander Charles Ernest Augustus of Cumberland. LXXII. An Act to enable his majesty to grant an annual sum to her royal highness Mary Louisa, Victoria duchess of Kent, for the purpose of enabling her said royal highness to provide for the support and education of her highness the princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent.

LXXIII. An Act for further regulating the trade of his majesty's possessions in America and the West Indies, and for the warehousing of goods therein.

LXXIV. An Act for consolidating and amending the laws relating to conveyances and transfers of estates and funds vested in trustees, who are infants, idiots, lunatics, or trustees of unsound mind, or who cannot be compelled or refuse to act; and also the laws relating to stocks and securities belonging to infants, idiots, lunatics, and persons of unsound mind. LXXV. An Act to enable his majesty to grant to a company, to be incorporated by charter, to be called

The Canada Company," certain lands in the province of Upper Canada, and to invest the said company with certain powers and privileges, and for other purposes relating thereto.

LXXVI. An Act to extend to the island of Mauritius the duties and regulations which relate to the British islands in the West Indies. LXXVII. An Act to authorize the application of part of the land revenue of the Crown for the repair and improvement of Buckingham

house.

LXXVIII. An Act to repeal the

several laws relating to the performance of quarantine, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof. LXXIX. An Act to provide for the assimilation of the currency and monies of account throughout the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

LXXX. An Act to repeal the duties payable in respect of spirits distilled

m England, and of licences for dis tilling, rectifying, or compounding such spirits, and for the sale of spi rits, and to impose other duties in lieu thereof; and to provide other regulations for the collection of the said duties, and for the sale of spirits, and for the warehousing of such spirits, without payment of duty, for exportation. LXXXI. An Act to repeal several duties payable on excise licences in Great Britain and Ireland, and to impose other duties in lieu thereof; and to amend the laws for granting excise licences.

LXXXII. An Act to abolish the sale of offices in the court of King's bench in England, to make provision for the lord chief justice of the said court, and to grant an additional annuity to the said lord chief justice on resignation of his office. LXXXIII. An Act to abolish the

sale of offices in the court of Common Pleas in England, to make provision for the lord chief justice of the said court, and to grant an additional annuity to the said lord chief justice on resignation of his office.

LXXXIV. An Act to provide for the augmenting the salaries of the master of the Rolls and the vice chancellor of England, the chief baron of the court of Exchequer, and the puisne judges and barons of the courts in Westminster-hall; and to enable his majesty to grant an annuity to such vice chancellor, and additional annuities to such master of the Rolls, chief baron, and puisne judges and barons, on their resignation of their respective offices LXXXV. An Act for further regula ting the payment of the salaries and pensions to the judges of his majesty's courts in India, and the bishop of Calcutta; for authorizing the transportation of offenders from the island of St. Helena; and for more effectually providing for the administration of justice in Singapore and Mallacca, and certain colonies on the coast of Coromandel. LXXXVI. An Act to provide for the erection of certain courts and offices of justice in Scotland. LXXXVII. An Act to regulate the payment of salaries and allowances to British consuls at foreign ports,

and the disbursements at such ports for certain public purposes. LXXXVIII. An Act to make 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 to enable his majesty to grant annuities to such bishops upon the resignation of their offices. LXXXIX. An Act to authorize the purchase of the office of receiver and comptroller of the seal of the court of King's-bench and Common Pleas, and of custos-brevium of the court of Common Pleas.

XC. An Act to amend an Act of the fifty-seventh year of his late majesty for enabling his majesty to recom pense the services of persons holding or who have held certain high and efficient civil offices.

XCI. An Act to repeal so much of an Act passed in the sixth year of his late majesty King George the First, as relates to the restraining several extravagant and unwarrantable practices in the said Act mentioned; and for conferring additional powers upon his majesty, with respect to the granting of charters of incorporation to trading and other companies.

XCII. An Act to render valid marriages solemnized in certain churches and public chapels in which banns have not usually been published. XCIII. An Act to render valid certain decrees and orders at the Rolls court.

XCIV. An Act to alter and amend an Act for the better protection of the property of merchants and others, who may hereafter enter into contracts or agreements in relation to goods, wares, or merchandize intrusted to factors or agents.

XCV. An Act to enable such persons as his majesty may be pleased to call to the degree of a sergeant at law, to take upon themselves that office in vacation.

XCVI. An Act for preventing frivo lous writs of error.

XCVII. An Act for the better preservation of the peace and good order in the universities of England.

XCVIII. An Act to prevent the fur ther circulation of tokens issued by

the governor and company of the Bank of Ireland, for the convenience of the public, and for defraying the expence of exchanging such tokens. XCIX. An Act to repeal an Act of the last session of parliament relative to the forming tables of manors, parishes, and townlands in Ireland, and to make provision for ascertaining the boundaries of the same. C. An Act to extend the powers of an Act for vesting in commissioners the bridges building over the Menia Straits and the river Conway, and the harbours of Howth and Holyhead, and the road from Dublin to Howth; and for the further improvement of the road from London to Holyhead.

CI. An Act to provide for the repairing, maintaining, and keeping in repair certain roads and bridges in Ireland.

CII. An Act to amend the laws re-
specting deserted children in Ire-
land.

CIII. An Act to enable the principal
officers and commissioners of his
majesty's Navy to acquire certain
portions of the docks and shore
ground at Leith for a naval yard,
and to enable the commissioners of
the treasury to advance a certain
sum of money on the security of the
docks and of the harbour of Leith.
CIV. An Act to repeal certain duties
of customs, and to grant other duties
in lieu thereof; to continue until
the fifth day of July 1826, the boun-
ties on refined sugar; and to alter
the bounty on cordage.
CV. An Act to repeal the several
laws relating to the customs.
CVI. An Act for the management of
the customs.

CVII. An Act for the general regu-
lation of the customs.

CVIII. An Act for the prevention of smuggling.

CIX. An Act for the encouragement

of British shipping and Navigation. CX. An Act for the registering of British vessels.

CXI. An Act for granting duties of

customs.

XII. An Act for the warehousing goods.

II. An Act to grant certain bounties and allowances of customs. CXIV. An Act to regulate the trade of the British possessions abroad.

CXV. An Act for regulating the

trade of the isle of Man.
CXVI. An Act for regulating vessels
carrying passengers to foreign parts.
CXVII. An Act to repeal the excise
duties and drawbacks on flint glass
in Great Britain, and to impose
other duties and another drawback
in lieu thereof, throughout the Uni-
ted Kingdom; and to continue the
jurisdiction and powers for recover-
ing penalties under customs and ex-
cise laws in Ireland, until further
provisions can be made.

CXVIII. An Act to transfer the col-
lection and management of the du-
ties on gold and silver plate in Ire-
land, and also on certain licences
in Great Britain and Ireland re-
spectively, from the commissioners
of excise to the commissioners of
stamps in Great Britain and Ire-
land respectively;
and to repeal so
much of an Act as requires excise
stamps to be affixed on papers and
pots containing cocoa paste.
CXIX. An Act to allow newspapers
to be printed upon paper of a larger
size than is now allowed; and to re-
duce the stamp duties now payable
upon supplements to newspapers and
other papers in Great Britain.
CXX. An Act for the better regu-
lating of the forms of process in the
courts of law in Scotland.

CXXI. An Act to enable the insolv-
ent debtors court to dispense, until
the end of the next session of par-
liament, with the necessity of pri-
soners residing within the walls in
certain cases.

CXXII. An Act for the better regulation of the linen and hempen manufactures of Ireland.

CXXIII. An Act to establish a taxation of costs on private bills in the House of Commons; and to prohibit the sale of certain offices under the serjeant at arms attending the House of Commons.

CXXIV. An Act for making the four districts in the parish of St. Maryle-bone, in the county of Middlesex, district rectories for certain purposes.

CXXV. An Act for the amendment of the law respecting pilots and pilotage; and also for the better preservation of floating lights, buoys, and beacons.

CXXVI. An Act to make provision

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