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The TITLES of the STATUTES.

of Ilebrewers in the County of Somerset, for Payment of his daughter's Portion, and Legacies charged thereupon.

20. An Act for discharging certain Estates in the Counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, of and from the Uses and Limitations contained in the Marriage settlement of Thomas de Grey Esq; and for settling other Estates in the said Counties to the same Uses.

21. An Act to enable James Clavering Junior, Esq; to make Sale of his Estate at Tanfield in the County of Durham, freed from the Uses and Trusts in the said James Claverings Marriage settlement, and to settle his Estate at Hall-Hill, in the said County, to the same Uses.

22. An Act for vesting the Manors of Burnells, alias Riston, and certain Lands in Norfolk, Part of the Estate of Jonas Rolfe, Gent. and Lucy his Wife, in Trustees, to be sold for discharging the Incumbrances thereon, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

23. An Act to enable Robert Paynter Esq; to sell the Manors of Twydal and East-Court in the County of Kent; and to settle other Lands of greater Value to the same or the like Uses.

24. An Act for Sale of the Estate of John, late Earl of Kildare deceased, in the County of Limerick within the Kingdom of Ireland, for Payment of the Charges and Incumbrances thereon, and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

25. An Act for discharging Part of the Estate of Richard Cambridge Esq; in the County of Gloucester, from the Uses and Limitations contained in his Marriage settlement; and for settling another Estate in the same County of better Value, to the same Uses.

26. An Act for enclosing the Heath or Common called Broad-Heath, in the Parishes of Ellen-Hall, Seighford and Ronton, in the County of Stafford.

27. An Act for naturalising James Mass and Jacob Stolck.

28. An Act for naturalising John de Neusuille.

29. An Act for confirming the Manor of Latham, and diverse Lands in the county of Lancaster, to Richard Waring, Bryan Fairfax and Thomas Ashurst, Esqrs; and their Heirs, subject to the Trusts to which the same are now liable, and discharged of a certain Clause in Letters Patents of King Charles the First, for reconveying the Reversion in Fee to the Crown.

30. An Act for vesting Part of the Estate late of Anthony Lechmere Esq; deceased, in Trustees, to be sold for Payment of his Debts.

31. An Act for Sale of the Estate of the Manor of Radwell, and other the Estate of Robert Bell Esq; and Richard Bell his Son, in Radwell in Norton in the County of Hertford; and for purchasing other Lands to be settled to the same Uses.

32. An Act for Sale of the Estate late of Richard Gwynn Gent. in the County of Brecon, for Payment of Debts, and for the settling an Estate in the County of Carmarthen, to certain Purposes therein mentioned.

33. An Act for Sale of Part of the Estate of Edward Nedham, Gent. in the County of Leicester, for Payment of Debts charged thereupon; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

34. An Act for naturalising John Frederick Jales.

PUBLICK ACT.

Anno 7 Georgii, Sess. 2.

An Act for making several Provisions to restore the Public Credit, which suffers by the Frauds and Mismanagements of the late Directors of the South-Sea Company, and others.

PRIVATE ACT.

An Act for naturalising James Lostan.

PUBLIC ACTS.

Anno 8 Georgii.

1. 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 1722.

2. An Act for continuing the Duties on Malt, Mum, Cyder and Perry, to raise Money by way of a Lottery, for the Service of the Year 1722, and for transferring the Deficiencies of a late Malt-Act to the Land-Tax for the said Year and for giving Time for inserting the Money given with Apprentices in their Indentures, and touching lost Bills, Tickets or Orders; and for exchanging the Tickets in the Exchequer for Certificates; and for suppressing Lotteries, denominated Sales, and other private Lotteries; and for enlarging the Time for the Accountant General of the Bank of England, to return Duplicates of Annuities into the Exchequer.

3. An Act for punishing Mutiny and Desertion, and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.

4. An Act for taking off the Duty upon all Salt used in the Curing of red Herrings, and laying a proportionable Duty upon all red Herrings confirmed at Home only; and for ascertaining the Customs and Excise payable for the Sugar-Houses in Scotland; and for making an Allowance for Salt lost in any Harbour or River of this Realm; and for the better securing the Duties on Salt delivered in Scotland.

5. An Act to explain and amend the Act passed in the third Year of his present Majesty's Reign, for repairing the Highway from several Places therein mentioned, leading towards Highgate-Gate-House and Hampstead, in the County of Middlesex.

6. An Act for granting the People called Quakers, such Forms of Affirmation or Declaration, as may remove the Difficulties which many of them lie under.

7. An Act for laying a Duty of two Pennies Scots, or one sixth Part of a Penny Sterling, upon every Scots Pint of Ale or Beer that shall be brewed for Sale, vended, or tapped within the Town of Elgine, and Privileges thereof, for paying the public Debts of the said Town, and for other the Purposes therein mentioned.

8. An Act to enable his Majesty effectually to prohibit Commerce (for the Space of one Year) with any Country that is or shall be infected with the Plague; and for shortning the Continuance of an Act passed in the seventh Year of his Majesty's Reign, intituled, An Act for repealing an Act made in the ninth Year of her late Majesty Queen Anne, intituled, An Act to oblige Ships coming from Places infected, more effectually to perform their Quarentine; and for the better preventing the Plague being brought from Foreign Paris into Great Britain or Ireland, or Isles of Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Sark or Man; and to hinder the spreading of infection.

9. An Act for continuing an Act passed in the tenth Year of the Reign of her late Majesty, intituled, An Act for repairing the Highway between a certain Place called Kilburn bridge, in the County of Middlesex, and Sparrows-Herne in the County of Hereford; and for making the said Act more effectual.

10. An Act for repealing such Clauses in the Act passed in the seventh Year of his Majesty's Reign (relating to quarentine and the Plague) as give Power to remove Persons

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