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James Mason Champness, white smith, and Henry Binks, clock and watchmaker, Hertfordshire, for certain improvements on axletrees of carriages of various descriptions.

Joseph Manton, gunmaker, Middlesex, for certain improvements in locks for fire-arms.

John Dale, millwright, Middlesex, for the application of a certain material, hitherto unused for that purpose, to the making of rollers or cylinders of various descriptions.

William Harry, smelter of copper ores, Glamorganshire, for an improvement or improvements in the building, constructing, or erecting, the roofs or upper parts of furnaces used for the smelting of copper and other ores, or any of their metals, or for any other purposes requiring strong fires.

John Oldham, Esq. Dublin, for an improvement or improvements in the mode of propelling ships and vessels on seas, rivers, and canals, by the agency of steam.

Robert Dickinson, Esq. Middlesex, for an improvement or improvements in the sea-beacons and their moorings. Frederick Dizi, Middlesex, for certain improvements on harps.

Francis Marcellin Molle, merchant, London, for certain improvements in propelling boats, and other vessels. Communicated to him by a foreigner residing abroad.

Henry Meade Ogle, Esq. Middlesex, for improvements in and on tea and coffee-pots, or biggings.

George Clymer, mechanic, London, for certain improvements in writingpresses.

Thomas Curson Hansard, printer, London, for certain improvements on,

and additions to, printing-presses, and also in the processes of printing.

Daniel Towers Shears, coppersmith, London, for a machine for the cooling of liquids, and which may be applied to the condensation of vapour, and may be of great utility in the condensing of spirits in the process of distillation and cooling worts, beer, and other liquids.

Samuel Hall, cotton-spinner, Nottinghamshire, for a certain method of improving thread or yarn as usually manufactured, of every description, whether fabricated from flax, cotton, wool, silk, or any other vegetable, animal, or other substance whatsoever.

Samuel Hall, cotton-spinner, Nottinghamshire, for a certain method of improving every kind of lace or net, or any description of manufactured goods, whose fabric is composed of holes or interstices, made from thread or yarn, as usually manufactured, of every description, whether fabricated from flax, cotton, wool, silk, or any other vegetable, animal, or other substances whatsoever.

Joseph Claude Niepee, Middlesex, for certain improvements in the means of propelling boats and other vessels. Communicated to him by a foreigner residing abroad.

Francis Baislee, stationer, Middlesex, for certain improvements on machinery used for cutting paper.

John Hague, engineer, Middlesex, for certain improvements in the method of expelling molasses or syrup from sugars, and also in the refining of sugars.

John Turner, button-maker, Birmingham, for certain improvements in the plating copper or brass, or a mixture of copper and brass with pure or standard gold, or gold mixed with a greater portion of alloy, and in the preparation of the same for rolling into sheets.

William Busk, Hertfordshire, and

Robert Hervey, Essex, victuallers, for their certain improvements in the means or mode of making pipes and tubes of porcelain, clay, or other ductile sub

stances.

William Stratton, engineer, London, for his improvements on certain parts of gas apparatus.

Joseph Wild, Esq. Southampton, for a machine for separating corn, grain, and seeds, from the straw.

Stephen Price, engineer, Gloucestershire, for his improved substitute for teasels to be used in the dressing of woollen cloth or fabrics which require dressing.

Moses Poole, Middlesex, for certain improvements on steam-engines. Communicated to him by a foreigner residing abroad.

Jean Frederick, Marquis de Chabannes, Middlesex, for certain improvements upon his inventions applicable to the purposes of warming, cooling, and conducting air in houses and other buildings, and also of warming, cooling, evaporating, condensing, and taking the residuum from liquids, and to other useful purposes. Partly com

municated to him by a foreigner residing abroad.

Jean Frederick, Marquis de Chabannes, Middlesex, for a new method of constructing pipes or tubes of copper, sheet-lead, sheet-iron, tin, or other metals, or mixture of metals, capable of being reduced into sheets.

John Lewis, clothier, William Lewis, dyer, and William Davis, engineer, all of Gloucestershire, for certain improve→ ments on wire-gig mills, for the purpose of dressing woollen and other cloths, that may require such process.

Arthur Howe Holdworth, Esq. Devon, for his improvements on gasometers.

Thomas Papps, accountant, Surrey, for certain improvements in books of accounts, commonly known under the names or denominations of cash-book, bought and sale day-books, or journal and ledger.

William Cleland, Lancashire, for his improvement in the bleaching of flax and hemp, and also in the bleaching of yarn and cloth, or other goods made of either of these articles.

ACTS OF THE BRITISH LEGISLATURE

DURING THE

SESSION OF PARLIAMENT 1817.

CAP. I. To continue and extend the Provisions of an Act of the Fortyninth Year of his present Majesty, for regulating the Trade and Commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope, until the 5th day of July 1820; and also for regulating the Trade of the Island of Mauritius.-Feb. 24, 1817. Cap. II. For raising the sum of twenty-four millions, by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year 1817. -Feb. 24.

The Treasury may raise 24,000,000l. by Exchequer bills, in like manner as is prescribed by 48 Geo. III. cap. 1. -Treasury to apply the money so raised. To be payable out of the Supplies for the next Session.-To bear an interest not exceeding 3 d. per cent. per diem. To be current at the Exchequer after April 5, 1818.-Bank of England may advance 15,000,0007. on the credit of this Act, notwithstanding the Act 5 and 6 Gul. and Mariæ.

Cap. III. To empower his Majesty to secure and detain such Persons as his Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his Person and Government. -March 4.

That all or any person or persons that are or shall be in prison within that part of the United Kingdom called Great Britain, at or upon the day on which this Act shall receive his Majesty's royal assent, or after, by warrant of his said Majesty's most honourable Privy Council, signed by six of the said Privy Council, for high treason, suspicion of high treason, or trea. sonable practices, or by warrant signed by any of his Majesty's Secretaries of State, for such causes as aforesaid, may be detained in safe custody, without bail or mainprize, until the 1st day of July 1817; and that no judge or justice of the peace shall bail or try any such person or persons so commit. ted, without order from his said Majesty's Privy Council, signed by six of the said Privy Council, until the 1st day of July 1817; any law or statute to the contrary notwithstanding.-Act in Scotland of 1701, so far as relates to treason, suspended.-Persons committed there not to be tried, &c. without such order as aforesaid.-From and after the 1st day of July 1817, the said persons so committed shall have the benefit and advantage of all laws

and statutes in any way relating to, or providing for, the liberty of the subjects of this realm.-Privileges of Members of Parliament not invalidated. Persons against whom indictments for high treason are already found, to be tried thereon.-The Secretary of State may order persons committed, to be removed to any other gaol; but persons so removed are not to be deprived of right to be tried or discharged.

Cap. IV. To extend the privileges of the Trade of Malta to the Port of Gibraltar.-March 4.

Cap. V. For continuing to his Majesty certain Duties on Malt, Sugar, Tobacco, and Snuff, in Great Britain; and on Pensions, Offices, and Personal Estates in England; and for receiving the Contributions of Persons receiving Pensions and holding offices; for the Service of the Year 1817.-March

Cap. VI. To make perpetual certain Parts of an Act of the Thirty sixth Year of his present Majesty, for the Safety and Preservation of his Majesty's Person and Government against Treasonable and Seditious Practices and Attempts; and for the Safety and Preservation of the Person of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent against Treasonable Practices and Attempts. March 17.

Cap. VII. To revive and make perpetual Two Acts of the Thirty-seventh Year of his present Majesty, the One in the Parliament of Great Britain, and the other in the Parliament of Ireland, 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. -March 17.

Cap. VIII. To continue until the 5th day of April 1820, an Act of the Fifty-second Year of his present Majesty, to regulate the Separation of

damaged from sound Coffee, and to permit Dealers to send out any quantity of Coffee, not exceeding Eight Pounds weight, without a Permit.March 17.

Cap. IX. For vesting all Estates. and Property occupied for the Barrack Service in the Comptroller of the Barrack Department, and for granting certain Powers to the said Comptroller.-March 17.

Cap. X. To regulate the Vessels carrying Passengers from the United Kingdom to certain of his Majesty's Colonies in North America.-March 17.

Security to be given for 500l. by the master or other person. Penalty on taking more passengers, than the number allowed, 501.

Passengers to be apportioned according to the tonnage of the vessel, in the proportion of one adult person,

or of three children under fourteen

years of age, for every one ton and a half of the burden of such ship or vessel.

Water and provisions to be laid in for twelve months consumption.

Abstract of Act to be exposed in the vessel, on penalty of 107.

Cap XI. To facilitate the progress of business in the Court of King's Bench in Westminster Hall.-March 17.

It shall and may be lawful for any one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench at Westminster, when occasion shall so require, to sit apart from the other Judges of the same Court, in some place in or near to Westminster Hall, for the business of adding and justifying special bail in causes depending in the same Court, whilst others of the Judges of the same Court are at the same time proceeding in the dispatch of the other business of the same Court in bank, in its usual place of sitting.

Cap. XII. For punishing Mutiny

and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters. -March 21.

Cap. XIII. For the regulating of his Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore.-March. 21.

Cap. XIV. To indemnify such Per. sons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Of fices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th day of March 1818; and to permit such Persons in Great Britain 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 Hilary Term 1818.-March 21.

Cap. XV. To continue, until the 5th day of July 1818, an Act of the 46th year of his present Majesty for granting an additional Bounty on the Exportation of the Silk Manufactures of Great Britain.-March 21.

Cap. XVI. For raising the Sum of Eighteen Millions, by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the year 1817.March 29.

Cap. XVII. To repeal, during the continuance of Peace, so much of an Act of the 9th year of his present Majesty as prohibits the Exportation of Pig and Bar Iron and certain Naval Stores, unless the Pre-emption thereof be offered to the Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy-March 29.

Cap. XVIII. To facilitate the hearing and determining of Suits in Equity in his Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Westminster.-March 29.

On account of the great increase in the proceedings on the Common Law side in the Court of Exchequer, the Chief Baron is empowered to hear and determine suits in equity, subject to an appeal to the House of Lords.

Cap. XIX. For the more effectual preventing seditious meetings and assemblies.-March 31.

It is enacted, that no meeting of more than 50 persons, except county. meetings, be held without notice being given by public advertisement, signed by seven housekeepers, in the focal newspaper, five days before such meeting. Notice to be given to the clerk of the peace. Meetings held without previous notice to be deemed unlawful assemblies. Persons continuing assembled contrary to this Act to the number of 12, and not dispersing in one hour after being required to do so by proclamation, to be adjudged guilty of felony, without benefit of clergy, and to suffer death. In case of resistance, justices are indemnified for the killing or hurting of offenders. Sheriffs-depute in Scotland have the same powers as magistrates in England.

It is further enacted, That every house, &c. in which any public lecture, discourse, or debate shall be held, on any subject whatever, for the purpose of raising or collecting money or any other valuable thing from the persons admitted, or to which any person shall be admitted, by ticket or token of any kind, delivered in consideration of money, unless previously licensed, shall be deemed to be disorderly. Two justices may license places for lectures, discourses, or debates, for any time not exceeding one year, for which licence one shilling, and no more, shall be paid, revokable at any quarter or general sessions. Upon evidence on oath that any place so licensed is commonly used for the purpose of delivering lectures of a seditious or immoral tendency, justices may adjudge the licence to be forfeited. Lectures delivered at the universities, inns of court, Gresham College, the College of the East India Company, or to any society or body incorporated or established by royal charter, or by authority of Parliament, are excepted from the operation of this Act, as well as lectures delivered by a schoolmaster to the youth

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