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TABLE

OF THE

Publick and Private Statutes,

CONTAINING

The TITLES of the ACTS of the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Years of the Reign of GEORGE III.

PUBLICK GENERAL ACTS.

Anno Regni 39 & 40 Georgii III.

1. AN Act for enabling his Majesty to accept the Services of an additional Number of Volunteers from the Militia, under certain Restrictions. Page 265

2. 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 eight hundred. 269

3. An Act for continuing and granting to his Majesty a Duty on Pensions, Offices, and Personal Estates in England, Wales, and the Town of Berwick upon Tweed; and certain other Duties on Sugar, Malt, Tobacco, and Snuff, for the Service of the Year one thousand eight hundred. Ibid.

4. An Act for raising a certain Sum of Money, by Loans or Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year one thousand eight hundred; and for permitting Exchequer Bills, issued under an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for granting to his Majesty a certain Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, and for other Purposes, if not paid by a certain Day, to be received in Payment of any of the Branches of the Publick Revenue. 270

5. An Act for enabling his Majesty to direct the Issue of Exchequer Bills to a limited Amount, and in the Manner therein mentioned, for the Relief of the Merchants of Liverpool and Lancaster. Ibid.

6. An Act to enable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury to issue Exchequer Bills to a limited Amount, on the Credit of such Monies as may arise by virtue of an Act of the thirty-eighth Year of his present Majesty's Reign, for granting certain additional Duties of Customs on Goods exported and imported, and on Tonnage of Ships entering Outwards or Inwards to or from Foreign Parts, until the signing the Preliminary Articles of Peace; and upon an Act of last Session of Parliament for granting certain Duties upon Income. Page 275

7. An Act to prohibit, until the first Day of March one thousand eight hundred, the making of Low Wines or Spirits from Wheat, Barley, Malt, or other Sort of Grain, or from any Meal, Flour, or any Bran, in that Part of Great Britain called Scotland. 276

8. An Act for reducing, until the first Day of June one thousand eight hundred, the Duties upon Spirits distilled from Melasses or Sugar, or any Mixture therewith; for prohibiting the Distillation of Spirits from Wheat or Wheat Flour; and for reducing, until the twentieth Day of September one thousand eight hundred, and better collecting the Duties payable on the Importation of Starch. 277

9. An Act to continue, until the twentieth Day of February one thousand eight hundred, several Laws relating to the Prevention and Punishment of Attempts to seduce Persons. serving in his Majesty's Forces; to the empowering his Majesty to accept the Services of such Parts of the Militia of this Kingdom as may offer to serve in Ireland; to the Admission of certain Articles of Merchandize in neutral Ships, and the issuing of Orders in Council for that Purpose; to the authorising his Majesty to make Regulations reflecting the Trade to the Cape of Good Hope; to the establishing Courts of Judicature in the Island of Newfoundland; to the enabling his

Majesty