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The TITLES of the STATUTES.


Middlesex; and for shutting up the present Foot Path leading through the Church Yard, and making a commodious one in lieu thereof.

67. An Act for extending certain Acts therein mentioned to Petty Officers and Seamen, Non-commissioned Officers of Marines, and Marines, serving, or who may have served, on Board any of his Majesty's Ships, and residing in Ireland,

68. An Act for making effectual the Statute Labour in the County of Renfrew, and for levying Conversion Money in Lieu of Labour in certain cases; and for otherwise regulating, making, and repairing High Roads and Bridges in the said County.

69. An Act for cleansing, lighting, watching, and regulating the Streets, Lanes, Passages, and Places, within the Towns of Manchester and Salford, in the County Palatine of Lancaster; for widening and rendering more commodious several of the said Streets, Lanes, and Passages; and for other Purposes therein mentioned.

70. An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor of and belonging to the Parish of Tewkesbury, in the County of Gloucester.

71. An Act for inclosing, dividing, and allotting a certain Common or Waste Ground, called Bolton Moor, and other the Commons and Waste Grounds within the Township of Great Bolton, in the County Palatine of Lancaster; and for widening, paving, lighting, watching, cleaning, and regulating the Streets, Lanes, Passages, and Places within the Towns of Great Bolton and Little Bolton; and for supplying the said Towns with Water, and for providing Fire Engines and Firemen, and for removing and preventing Nuisances, Incroachments, and Annoyances; and for licensing and regulating Hackney Coaches and Chairs within the said Towns.

72. An Act for vesting in James Turner, his Executors, Administrators, and Assigns, the sole Use and Property of a certain Yellow Colour of his Invention, throughout that Part of Great Britain called England, the Dominion of Wales, and Town of Berwick upon Tweed, for a limited Time.

73. An Act for more effectually securing to Joseph Booth, and to the Publick, the Benefit of a certain invention or Discovery therein mentioned, for which he hath obtained Letters Patent under the Great Seal of Great Britain.

74. An Act for the Maintenance and Improvement of the Harbour of Ramsgate, in the County of Kent; and for cleansing, amending, and preserving the Haven of Sandwich, in the same County.

75. An Act for further enlarging and improving the Harbour of Whitehaven, in the County of Cumberland.

76. An Act for building a new Church or Chapel within the Town and Parish of Liverpool, in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

77. An Act for the more easy and speedy Recovery of small Debts within the Hundreds of Cirencester, Crowthorne, and Minty, Brightwells Barrow, Rapsgate, Bradley, Bisley, and Longtree, commonly called The Seven Hundreds of Cirencester, in the County of Gloucester.

78. An Act for paving, cleansing, lighting, and otherwise improving, the Streets, Lanes, and other publick Passages and Places, within the Borough of Derby; and for selling a certain Piece of Waste Ground, situate within the said Borough, called Nun's Green, towards defraying the Expence of the said Improvements.

79. An Act for amending an Act of the sixteenth Year of his present Majesty, relating to the Haven and Harbour of Boston, in the County of Lincoln; and for regulating the mooring and removing of Ships and other Vessels within the said Haven and Harbour, and for removing Obstructions therein.

80. An Act for better paving, cleansing, and otherwise improving the Borough of Boston, in the County of Lincoln.

81. An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal, from or from near Wyrley Bank in the County of Stafford, to communicate with the Birmingham, and Birmingham and Fazeley Canal, at or near the Town of Wolverhampton, in the said County; and also certain Collateral Cuts therein described, from the said intended Canal.

82. An Act for building a new Gaol, a Penitentiary House, and House of Correction, within the City of Bristol, and for regulating, maintaining, and supporting the same; and for disposing of the present Common Gaol of the said City of Bristol and County of the same City, and for other Purposes.

83. An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from the Foot of Coombe Hill, in the Parish of Leigh, in the County of Gloucester, to join the River Severn, at or near a Place called Fisher's, otherwise Fletcher's Leap, in the Parish of Deerhurst, in the said County.

84. An Act for making a Navigable Canal from Manchester, to or near Ashton-underlyne, and Oldham in the County Palatine of Lancaster.

85. An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor of and within such Part of the Parish of Whitchurch as maintains its own Poor, and lies within the County of Salop.

86. An Act for repairing or rebuilding the Pier adjoining to the Harbour of Broadstairs, in the Isle of Thanet, in the County of Kent; and for the better preserving the said Harbour; and for removing and preventing Obstructdions, Nuisances, and Annoyances, and regulating the Mooring of Ships and Vessels within the said Harbour.

87. An Act to enable the Dean and Chapter of Hereford to rebuild the West End of the Cathedral Church of Hereford, and to repair other Parts thereof.

88. An Act for rebuilding the Chapel, and enlarging the Chapel Yard of Lane End, within the Parish of Stoke upon Trent, in the County of Stafford.

89. An Act for building a new Church or Chapel in the Town of Leeds, in the West Riding of the County of York.

90. An Act for building a Bridge across the River Wear, from the Bank or Shore thereof, in the Parish of Bishop Wearmouth, in the County of Durham, to the opposite Shore, in the Parish of Monk Wearmouth, in the same County.

91. An Act for more effectually draining and preserving certain Low Lands, within the Parish of Great Carlton, in the County of Lincoln.

92. An Act for making a Harbour in the Cove of Beer, in the County of Devon.

93. An Act for improving the Communication between the County of Edinburgh and the County of Fife, by the Passages or Ferries cross the Frith of Forth, between Leith and Newhaven, in the County of Edinburgh, and Kinghorn and Bruntisland in the County of Fife; and for rendering the Harbours and Landing Places more commodious.

94. An Act for regulating and improving the Salmon Fisheries in the River Nith, in the County of Dumfries.

95. An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor within the several Parishes of Atcham, Wroxeter, Berrington, Cund, Eaton Constantine, Henley, Leighton, Uffington, and Upton Magna, and the Chapelry of Cressage, in the County of Salop.

96. An Act for the better Relief and Employment of the Poor, belonging to the Parishes of Montgomery and Pool,

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