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TABLE

OF THE

Publick and Private Statutes,

CONTAINING

The TITLES of the ACTS from the thirtieth Year of the Reign of

George II. to the third Year of the Reign of George III.

PUBLICK ACTS.

Anno 30 Georgii II.

1. An Act to prohibit, for a Time to be limited, the Exportation of Corn, Malt, Meal, Flour, Bread, Biscuit and Starch.

2. An Act to make Provision for the quartering of the Foreign Troops in his Majesty's Service now in this Kingdom.

3. An Act for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax, to be raised in Great Britain for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven; and for discharging certain Arrears of Land Taxes incurred before the Time therein mentioned;and for the more effectual collecting of Arrears for the future.

4. An Act for continuing and granting to his Majesty certain Duties upon Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven; and concerning the Interest to be paid for Monies to be borrowed as well on the Credit of this Act, as on the Credit of an Act of this Session of Parliament, for granting an Aid to his Majesty by a Land Tax.

5. An Act for granting to his Majesty a Sum not exceeding one million fifty thousand and five Pounds and five shillings, to be raised by Way of lottery.

6. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.

7. An Act to discontinue for a limited Time the Duties upon Corn and Flour imported; and also upon such Corn, Grain, Meal, Bread, Biscuit and Flour, as have been or shall be taken from the Enemy, and brought into this Kingdom.

8. An Act for the speedy and effectual recruiting of his Majesty's Land Forces and Marines.

9. An Act to prohibit for a limited Time the Exportation of Corn, Grain, Meal, Malt, Flour, Bread, Biscuit Starch, Beef, Pork, Bacon, and other Victual (except Fish and Roots and Rice, to be exported to any Part of Europe Southward of Cape Finisterre) from his Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in America, unless to Great Britain or Ireland, or to some of the said Colonies and Plantations; and to permit the Importation of Corn and Flour into Great Britain and Ireland in Neutral Ships; and to allow the Exportation of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Meal and Flour, from Great Britain to the Isle of Man, for the Use of the Inhabitants there.

10. An Act to prohibit for a limited Time the making of Low Wines and Spirits, from Wheat, Barley, Malt, or any other Sort of Grain, or from any Meal or Flour.

11. An Act for the Regulation of his Majesty's Marine Forces while on Shore.

12. An Act to amend an Act made in the twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act to render more effectual an Act passed in the twelfth Year of the reign of his Late Majesty King George, to prevent unlawful Combinations of Workmen employed in the Woollen Manufactures, and for better Payment of their Wages; and also an Act passed in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of his said late Majesty, for the better Regulation of the Woollen Manufacture; and for preventing Disputes among the Persons concerned therein and for limiting a Time for prosecuting for the Forfeiture appointed by the aforesaid Act, in case of payment of the Workmens Wages in any other Manner than in Money.

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