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The TITLES of the STATUTES.

63. An Act for repealing an Act, made in the eighteenth Year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, intituled, An Act for paving of the City of Chichester, and for the better paving, repairing, and cleaning, the Streets, Lanes, and Publick Ways and Passages within the Walls of the said City, and for removing and preventing Encroachments, Obstructions, and Annoyances therein.

64. An Act for repairing, paving, and cleansing the Highways, Streets, and Lanes, within the Town and Borough of Deal, in the County of Kent, and for removing and preventing Encroachments, Obstructions, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein.

65. An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Communication between the Loughborough Canal and the Town of Leicester, and for making and maintaining a Communication by Railways or Stone Roads, and Water Levels, from several Places and Mines to the said Loughborough Canal, and for continuing the same, by parting along the said Canal to the said Navigable Communication, all in the County of Leicester.

66. An Act to enable the Earl of Egremont to make and maintain the River Rother navigable from the Town of Midhurst to a certain Meadow called The Railed Pieces, or Stopham Meadow, in the Parish of Stopham, and a Navigable Cut from the said River to the River Arun, at or near Stopham Bridge, in the County of Sussex, and for other Purposes.

67. An Act to enable the Company of Proprietors of the Thames and Severn Canal Navigation to borrow a further Sum of Money to compleat the said Navigation.

68. An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from Manchester to or near Presto-lee Bridge, in the Township of Little Lever, and from thence, by one Branch, to or near the Town of Belton, and by another Branch to or near the Town of Bury, and to Weddell Brook, in the Parish of Bury, all in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

69. An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from Kington, in the County of Hereford, by or through Leominster, to join the River Severn near Stourport Bridge, in the County of Worcester.

70. An Act for lighting, cleansing, and watching the Streets, Lanes, and other Publick Passages and Places within the Township of Stourbridge, in the Parish of Old Swinford, in the County of Worcester, and for removing and preventing Obstructions, Nuisances, and Annoyances therein.

71. An Act for taking down and rebuilding the Parish Church of All Saints, within the Town and County of the Town of Southampton, and for purchasing Land for the Purpose of a Church Yard for the Use of the said Parish.

72. An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor within the Hundreds of Loes and Wilford, in the County of Suffolk.

73. An Act for repairing the Parish Church of Saffron Walden, in the County of Essex.

74. An Act for building a new Church in the Town of Wakefield, in the West Riding of the County of York, and for providing a proper Burial Ground, and making Provision for a Minister to officiate in the said Church.

75. An Act for enlarging the Powers of an Act passed in the twenty-ninth Year of the Reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An Act for rebuilding the Parish Church of Saint Chad, in the Town of Shrewsbury, and County of Salop; and for providing a new Cemetery or Burial Ground, and making convenient Avenues and Passages to the said Church and Cemetery, and for raising a further Sum of Money for fully effecting the general Purposes in the said Act mentioned.

76. An Act for improving the Navigation of the River Ouse, between Newhaven Bridge and Lewes Bridge, in the County of Sussex, and for the better draining of the Low Lands lying in Lewes and Laughton Levels, in the said County.

77. An Act for making navigable the Rivers Wreak and Eye, from the Junction of the said River Wreak with the intended Navigation from Loughborough to Leicester, at or near a certain Place called Turnwater Meadow, in the Lordship of Coffington, to Mill Close Homestead, in the Parish of Melton Mowbray, all in the County of Leicester.

78. An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor belonging to the several Parishes of Ellesmere, Middle, Baschurch, and Horsley, and to the Chapelry or District of Hadnal (otherwise Hadnal Ease), in the County of Salop.

79. An Act for better paving, cleansing, lighting, watching, and otherwise improving, the Town of Dudley, in the County of Worcester, and for better supplying the said Town with Water.

80. An Act for paving the Footways of certain Streets within the City of Lincoln; for cleansing, lighting, and watching the said Streets, and other Streets, Lanes, and publick Passages and Places, within the said City; and for removing and preventing Nuisances, Annoyances, and Encroachments therein.

81. An Act for embanking and draining certain Fen Lands and Low Grounds within the Parishes of Chatteris and Dodington, and Hamlet of Wimblington, in the said Parish of Dodington, in the Isle of Ely and County of Cambridge; and for dividing, allotting, and inclosing, the Commons and Waste Lands within the said Hamlet of Wimblington.

82. An Act to continue two Acts made in the fifteenth and thirty-first Years of the Reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, 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, tapped, or sold, within the Town of Kirkaldy and Liberties thereof.

83. An Act for repairing, enlarging, and preserving the Harbour of Swansea, in the County of Glamorgan.

84. An Act for building a Bridge cross the River Thames from Stanes to Egham, in the Counties of Middlesex and Surrey.

85. An Act for making and maintaining a Canal, or Navigable Communication, from or near a certain Place called Abernant, in the County of Glamorgan, to and through a certain Place called The Brickfield, near Melincrythan Pill, into the River of Neath, near the Town of Neath, in the said County.

86. An Act for enlarging and extending the Powers of the present Prescriptive Market within the Town and Borough of Lewes, in the County of Sussex, and removing the same to a more convenient Place within the said Town and Borough, or within the Precinct of the Castle of Lewes aforesaid.

87. An Act for the better Maintenance and Support of the Poor of the Parish of Sunderland, near the Sea, in the County Palatine of Durham.

88. An Act for confirming an Agreement entered into between the Company of Proprietors of the Undertaking for recovering and preserving the Navigation of the River Dee, and certain Lords of Manors, and other Persons intitled to Right of Common upon the Wastes and Commons, and the old common Salt Marshes, lying on the

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