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granting other duties in lieu there-
of; and for the better collection
of the said duties."
An act for repealing the hat
duty in Great Britain.

An act for the abolition, and regulation, of certain offices in the customs.

An act for granting exemptions in certain cases from the payment of the duties charged in respect of servants, carriages, horses, and dogs, kept in Great Britain and Ireland respectively.

An act for the better security of his Majesty's naval arsenals in the river Medway, and Portsmouth and Hamoaze harbours, and of his Majesty's ships and vessels lying at and resorting to the same.

An act to make provision, in ceratin cases, for the wives and families of serjeants, corporals, drummers, and privates, serving in the militia of Ireland.

An act to amend an act of the forty-eighth year of his present Majesty, for the better care and maintenance of lunatics, being paupers or criminals in England.

An act to render valid certain

indentures for the binding of parish apprentices.

An act to continue, until the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, certain acts for appointing commissioners to inquire into the fees, gratui ties, perquisites and emoluments, received in several public offices in Ireland; to examine into any abuses which may exist in the same, and into the mode of repro-ceiving, collecting, issuing and accounting for public money in Ireland.

An act for authorising the sale of prize goods lodged in warehouses after a certain period.

An act for making further vision for the payment of salaries and other charges in the office of the commissioners for the affairs of India; and for enabling the East-India company to restore to the service of the said company, military officers removed therefrom by sentences of courts martial; and to authorise the said company, in cases of unforeseen emergency, to take up ships by private contract.

An act for letting to farm, the duties on horses hired by the mile or stage, to be used in travelling, and on horses hired for a less period of time than twenty-eight days, for drawing carriages used in travelling post or otherwise, in Great Britain; and for facilitating

the

recovery of the said duties. An act to amend the laws for regulating the election, infIreland, of members to serve in parliament.

An act for establishing regulations respecting rock salt delivered to the refineries; for granting relief for salt lost at sea by shipwreck or capture; and for reviving, amending, and continuing until the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, so much of an act of the forty-first year of his present Majesty, as allows the use of salt, duty-free, for curing fish in bulk or in barrels.

An act for allowing the like drawback of duty paid on coals used in certain mines and smelting mills in Devonshire, as is now allowed in the county of Cornwall.

An act to explain an act passed in the twenty-second year of his present Majesty, for better secur

ing the freedom of election of members to serve in parliament, by disabling certain officers employed in the collection or management of his Majesty's revenues from giving their votes at such elections so far as relates to coal meters and corn meters of the city of London.

An act to enable the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury to issue Exchequer bills, on the credit of such aids or supplies as have been, or shall be granted by parliament for the service of Great Britain for the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

An act to continue, until the fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and to ámend several acts for granting certain rates and duties, and for allowing certain drawbacks and bounties on goods, wares, and merchandize imported into and exported from Ireland; and to grant to his Majesty, until the said fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, certain new and additional duties on the importation, and to allow drawbacks on the exportation of certain goods, wares, and merchandize into and from Ireland.

An act for allowing the manufacture and use of a liquor prepared from sugar, for colouring porter, and for indemnifying persons who have manufactured or used such colouring.

An act for raising the sum of two hundred thousand pounds by treasury bills for the service of Ireland, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

An act to increase the salary of the lord-lieutenant of Ireland.

An act for defraying, until the

and

twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred twelve, the charge of the pay and clothing of militia of Ireland; and for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the said militia during peace.

An act for discharging certain arrears of quit, crown, and composition rents, which have been growing due in Ireland.

An act to repeal certain parts of several acts of the parliament of Ireland, relating to the tolls on stage coaches carrying above a certain number of passengers, and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

An act for granting additional duties of customs on fir timber, of certain dimensions, of the growth of Norway, imported into Great Britain.

An act to continue, until the twenty-ninth day of July, one thousand, eight hundred, and thir teen, an act of the last session of parliament, intituled, “An act to extend and amend the term and provisions of an act of the thirtyninth and fortieth year of his present Majesty, for the better preservation of timber in the New Forest; and for ascertaining the boundaries of the said forest, and the lands of the crown within the same."

An act to explain and amend certain laws of excise respecting the duties on estates and goods sold by auction; the allowing dealers to roast their own coffee on certain conditions; and to the watermark of the year on paper intended for exportation.

An act to extend the powers vested in the commissioners of the customs of restoring vessels and

goods seized to seizures made by virtue of any acts relating to the department of the customs.

An act to regulate the trade between places in Europe south of Cape Finisterre, and certain ports in the British colonies in North America.

An act to indemnify such persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to give securities and to register memorials thereof, under an act of the last session of parliament, and for extending the times limited for those purposes respectively, until two months after the commencement of the next session of parliament.

An act for removing doubts as to the registering of certain property purchased or sold under the land-tax redemption act, in right of which persons may claim to vote at elections of members to serve in parliament.

An act to amend an act passed in the thirty-eighth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled, "An act to regulate the trial of causes, indictments, and other proceedings which arise within the counties of certain cities and towns corporate within this king. dom.

An act for amending an act of the forty-eighth year of his present Majesty, for regulating the British white-herring fishery.

An act to extend the provisions of an act passed in the forty-seventh of his present Majesty, for discharging from the claims of the crown, certain real and personal estates belonging to General De Lancey, late barrack master general, and vested in trustees for sale; and also for vesting and settling certain lands heretofore con

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tracted to be purchased by the said General De Lancey, in trustees, to be sold for payment of a debt due to the crown, and for other purposes relative thereto.

An act to authorize the allowing officers to retire on half-pay, or other allowances, under certain restrictions.

Anact forextending and amending the regulations now in force, relative to the payment to the royal hospital at Chelsea of the forfeited and unclaimed shares of army prize money.

An act to enable persons to bequeath lands and tenements to the commissioners for the government of the Royal Naval Asylum, and to authorize the said commissioners to hold the same for the benefit of the said asylum; and for amending an act made in the forty-seventh year of his present Majesty relating to the said asylum.

An act for enabling the wives and families of soldiers embarked for foreign service, to return to their homes.

An act for defraying the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia and local militia in Great Britain, for the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven.

An act to revive and continue, until the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twelve, and amend so much of an act, made in the thirty-ninth and fortieth year of his present Majesty, as grants certain allowances to adjutants and serjeant-majors of the militia of England, disembodied under an act of the same session of parliament.

An act for making allowances,

in certain cases, to subaltern officers of the militia in Great Britain, while disembodied.

An act to prevent the counterfeiting of silver pieces denominated tokens, intended to be issued and circulated by the governor and company of the Bank of England, for the respective sums of five shillings and sixpence, three shillings, and one shilling and sixpence, and to prevent the bringing into the kingdom or uttering any such counterfeit pieces or tokens.

An act for permitting Sir William Bishop and George Bishop to continue, until the fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, the manufacture of Maidstone geneva; for charging the same with certain duties; and for rectifying a mistake in an act of this session, for empowering the lords commissioners of the Treasury to exonerate distillers of spirits from sugar from the excess of duties therein mentioned.

An act for enabling his Majesty to raise the sum of three millions for the service of Great Britain.

An act for granting to his Majesty a sum of money to be raised by lotteries.

An act to permit the services of the regiment of the Miners of Cornwall and Devon to be extended to Ireland.

An act for amending the act forty-third George Third, to promote the building, repairing, or otherwise providing the churches and chapels, and of houses for the residence of ministers, and the providing of church-yards and glebes.

An act to enable his Majesty to grant a piece of ground within the

Tower of London, to be used as an additional burial ground for persons dying within the said Tower.

An act for granting to his Majesty certain sums of money out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain, and for applying certain monies therein mentioned, for the service of the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parlia

ment.

An act to permit the interchange of the British and Irish militias respectively.

An act for repealing two acts made in the forty-second and forty-seventh years of his present Majesty, for the more effectual administration of the office of a justice of the peace, in such parts of the counties of Middlesex and Surrey, as lie in or near the metropolis, and for the more effectual prevention of felonies; and for making other provisions in lieu thereof; to continue in force until the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, and from thence until the expiration of six weeks from the commencement of the then next session of parliament.

An act to amend an act of the forty-seventh year of his present Majesty, for more effectually preventing the stealing of deer.

An act to suspend the payment of all drawbacks on spirits made or distilled in Great Britain or Ireland, and exported from either country to the other respectively; and to suspend the importation into Great Britain of any spirits made or distilled in Ireland, except such as shall have been ware

housed according to law; and for regulating the exportation of home-made spirits from Great Britain to Ireland, and from Ireland to Great Britain, until three months after the commencement of the next session of parliament. An act to continue, until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, an act for appointing commissioners to inquire and examine into the nature and extent of the several bogs in Ireland, and the practica bility of draining and cultivating them, and the best means of effecting the same.

An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors in Ireland,

An act further to extend and render more effectual certain pro visions of an act passed in the twelfth year of the reign of his late Majesty king George the First, intituled, "An act to prevent frivolous and vexatious ar rests;" and of an act passed in the fifth of the reign of his Mayear jesty king George the Second, to explain, amend, and render more éffectual the said former act; and of two acts passed in the nineteenth and forty-third years of

the reign of his present Majesty, extending the provisions of the said former acts.

An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors in England.

An act to extend an act made in the eighteenth year of his late Majesty King George the Second, to explain and amend the laws touching the elections of knights of the shire to serve in parliament for England, respecting the expenses of hustings and pollcleiks, so far as regards the city of Westminster.

An act for making more effectual provision for preventing the current gold coin of the realm from being paid or accepted for a greater value than the current value of such coin; for preventing any note or bill of the governor and company of the Bank of England from being received for any smaller sum than the sum therein specified: and for staying proceedings upon any distress by tender of such notes.

An act to explain an act passed in this present session of parliament, intituled, "An act to permit the interchange of the British and Irish militias respectively."

LAW CASES.

TRIALS FOR LIBEL.

The King v. Finnerty.-On January 31st, the judgment of the court was prayed against the defendant, who had suffered judgment to go against him by default. The indictment was for a libel on

Lord Castlereagh, one of his Ma jesty's principal Secretaries of State, which appeared in the Morning Chronicle of last year. The defendant had accompanied the expedition to Walcheren, for thẻ purpose of writing a narrative of its proceedings, when a general order was issued to Lord Chatham

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