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The TITLES of the S T A T U T E S.

  1. An Act for granting to his Majesty several additional Duties upon Wines imported into this Kingdom, and certain Duties upon all Cyder and Perry; and for raising the Sum of three millions five hundred thousand Pounds, by way of Annuities and Lotteries, to be charged on the said Duties.
  2. An Act for more effectually securing the Payment of the Duties upon Malt, by preventing Frauds in the obtaining of Allowances, and the mixing of fresh Corn or Grain with Corn or Grain making into Malt.
  3. An Act for the Encouragement of John Harrison, to publish and make known his Invention of a Machine or Watch, for the Discovery of the Longitude at Sea.
  4. An Act to prevent occasional Freemen from voting at Elections of Members to serve in Parliament for Cities and Boroughs.
  5. An Act to impower the Commissioners or Governors of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, after defraying the necessary Expences thereof, to provide for such Seamen worn out and become decrepit in the Service of their Country, who shall not be provided for within the said Hospital; and to enable them to receive such Pensions as shall be granted them by the said Commissioners or Governors, in the most easy and convenient Manner; and for preventing Frauds and Abuses attending the same.
  6. An Act for raising a certain Sum of Money by Loans or Exchequer Bills for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three; and for further appropriating the Supplies granted in this Session of Parliament; and for allowing his Majesty's Subjects to import their goods and Effects, being the Produce of certain Places ceded to France and Spain by the late Treaty of Peace, upon the Payment of the same Duties as they would have been liable to, if such Places had remained in his Majesty's Possession.
  7. An Act for granting to his Majesty a certain Sum of Money out of the Sinking Fund; and for applying certain Monies remaining in the Exchequer for the Service of the Year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-three.
  8. An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of small Debts within the Hundreds of Bradford, Melksham and Whorlfdown, in the County of Wilts.
  9. An Act for permitting the Importation, from Ireland, of Stale and Dirty Butter, not fit for eating, commonly called Grease Butter.
  10. An Act for explaining, amending, and rendering more effectual, an Act made in the nineteenth Year of the Reign of King Henry the Seventh, intituled, " Silk Works."
  11. An Act for the further Improvement of his Majesty's Revenue of Customs; and for the Encouragement of Officers making Seizures; and for the Prevention of the clandestine Running of Goods into any Part of his Majesty's Dominions.
  12. An Act to explain, amend, and render more effectual an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for paving, cleansing, and lighting the Squares, Streets and Lanes, within the City and Liberty of Westminster, the Parishes of Saint Giles in the Fields, Saint George the Martyr, Saint George Bloomsbury, that Part of the Parish of Saint Andrew's Holbourn, which lies in the County of Middlesex, the several Liberties of the Rolls and Savoy, and that Part of the Dutchy of Lancaster which lies in the County of Middlesex, and for preventing Annoyances therein; and for other Purposes therein: mentioned.
  13. An Act to prevent fraudulent and occasional Votes in the Elections of Knights of the Shire, and of Members for Cities and Towns which are Counties of themselves, so far as relates to the Right of Voting by virtue of an Annuity or Rent Charge.
  14. An Act to continue and amend two Acts made in the twenty-first and twenty-eighth Years of his late Majesty's Reign, for encouraging the making of Indico in the British Plantation in America; and for extending the Provisions of an Act of the thirtieth Year of his late Majesty's Reign, with respect to bringing Prize Goods into this Kingdom, to Spnnish Prize Goods taken since the late Declaration of War with Spain.
  15. An Act to continue and render more effectual two acts of parliament for repairing the roads from Lemsford Mill, through Welwyn and Stevenage, and by Cory's Mill, to Hitchen; and from Welwyn, through Codicot, to Hitchen, in the County of Hertford.
  16. An Act to continue and render more effectual two Acts of Parliament for repairing and widening the Road leading from the Black Bull Inn in Dunstable, in the County of Bedford, to the way turning out of the said Road up to Shafford House, in the County of Hertford.
  17. An Act for continuing an Act passed in the eleventh year of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled, An Act for laying a Duty of two Pennies Scots, or one Sixth Part of a Penny Sterling, upon every Scots Pint of Ale and Beer which shall be brewed for Sale, brought into, vended, tapped or fold, within the town of Aberbrothock, and Liberties thereof.
  18. An Act for enlarging the Term and Powers granted by two Acts of Parliament of the sixth and twelfth years of his late Majesty's Reign, for repairing the Road from Fyfield, in the County of Berks, to Saint John's Bridge, in the County of Gloucester, and from an Inn called the Hind's Head, in the Parish of Kingston Bagpuse, in the said County of Berks, to that Part of Newbridge which stands in the said County of Berks; and for rendering the said Acts more effectual.
  19. An Act to enlarge the Term and Powers granted by an Act made in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intitled. An Act to repair and widen the Road leading from Godmanchester, in the County of Huntingdon, through Fen Stanton and Cambridge, to the first Rubbing House on Newmarket Heath, in the County of Cambridge.
  20. An Act for repairing and widening the Road from a Place called Nightingales, in the Township of Heath Charnock, to the Bridge at the West End of the Town of Bolton in the Moors, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.
  21. An Act for repairing the Road from Newmarket, over Newmarket Heath, to the Turnpike Road leading to Stump Cross, in the Counties of Cambridge and Suffolk.
  22. An Act for repairing, widening and keeping in Repair, the Road from Kirkby Kendall, in the County of Westmorland, to Kirkby Ireleth, in the County of Lancaster.
  23. An Act for repairing, widening and keeping in Repair, the High Road leading from the fourteen Mile Stone, in the Parish of Mothvey, in the County of Carmarthen, through Llandovery, to Llydiad y Gwyn, in the Parish of Llandilo vawr; and from thence by Cledfulch,
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