PUBLIC GENERAL ACTS Passed in the FOURTH Session of the SEVENTH Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland-3 and 4 GEO. IV. 1823. I. AN Act to indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th day of March, 1824; to permit such persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execu tion of indentures of clerks to attor neys and solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the 1st day of Hilary Term 1824; and to allow persons to make and file such affidavits, although the persons whom they served shall have neglected to take out their annual certificates. (27 February, 1823.) II. An Act to amend an Act of the last session of parliament, for regulating the trade between his majesty's possessions in America and the West Indies and other parts of the world. (7 March.) III. An Act for continuing to his ma jesty for one year certain duties on sugar, tobacco, and snuff, foreign spirits, and sweets, in Great Britain; and on pensions, offices, and personal estates in England; and for receiving the contributions of persons receiving pensions and holding offices; for the service of the year 1823. (7 March.) IV. An Act for raising the sum of twenty millions by exchequer bills for the service of the year 1823. (7 March.) V. An Act to render valid certain marriages. (7 March.) VI. An Act for applying certain monies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1823. (19 March.) VII. An Act to regulate the appointment and swearing into office of the chancellor of the exchequer of Ireland. (19 March.) VIII, An Act to continue until the 25th day of July, 1824, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, an Act made in the fiftyfourth year of his late majesty, for rendering the payment of creditors more equal and expeditious in Scotland. (19 March.) IX. An Act to repeal the rates, duties, and taxes payable in respect of male servants, horses, carriages, and dogs, in Ireland. (19 March.) X. An Act to rectify a mistake in an Act, intituled, "an Act for making and maintaining certain roads and bridges in the counties of Lanark and Dumbarton," in so far as relates to the application of certain exchequer bills therein mentioned. (19 March.) XI. An Act for repealing certain of the duties of assessed taxes; for reducing certain other of the said duties; and for relieving persons who have compounded for the same. (19 March.) XII. An Act for the regulating of his majesty's royal marine forces while on shore. (24 March.) XIII. An Act for punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better pay ment of the army and their quarters. (24 March.) XIV. An Act to continue for five years, and from thence until the end of the then next session of parliament, two Acts made in the forty-seventh and fiftieth years of the reign of his late majesty King George the Third, for the preventing improper persons from having arms in Ireland. (24 March.) XV. An Act to continue for five years, and from thence until the end of the then next session of parliament, and to amend the laws relating to Yeomanry corps, in Ireland. (24 March.) XVI. An Act to explain so much of the XVII. An Act to repeal certain provi- (26 XIX. An Act for further regulating the reduction of the national debt. (26 March.) XX. An Act for fixing the rates of subsistence to be paid to inn-keepers and others on quartering soldiers. (2 May.) XXI. An Act for granting and applying certain sums of money for the service of the year 1823. (2 May.) XXII. An Act to confirm an agreement entered into by the trustees under an Act of the last session of parliament, for apportioning the burthen occasioned by the military and naval pensions, and civil superannuations, with the governor and company of the Bank of England. XXIII. An Act to consolidate the se- XXV. An Act for regulating the num- XXVII. An Act to amend an Act pass- quorum in cities and towns corporate. (23 May.) XXVIII. An Act for the more speedy XXIX. An Act to increase the power tion and exportation of certain arti- XXXI. An Act to amend an Act passed in the nineteenth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the Second, intituled, "an Act more effectually to prevent profane cursing and swearing." (30 May.) XXXII. An Act for the amendment of the laws respecting charitable loan societies in Ireland. (30 May.) XXXIII. An Act to make more effectual regulations for the election, and to secure the performance of the du ties, of county treasurers in Ireland. (30 May.) XXXIV. An Act to enlarge the powers of justices in determining complaints between masters and servants, and between masters, apprentices, arti ficers, and others. (17 June.) XXXV. An Act to enable trustees or commissioners under acts of parlia ment to meet and carry such acts into execution, although they may not have met according to the direc tions of such acts. (27 June.) XXXVI. An Act to discourage the granting of leases in joint tenancy in Ireland. (27 June.) XXXVII. An Act to amend an Act for the more speedy return and levying of fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and recognizances estreated. (27 June.) XXXVIII. An Act for settling the com pensation to the holders of certain offices in the courts of law in Ireland, abolished under an act passed in the first and second years of the reign of his present majesty, for regulating the same. (27 June.) XXXIX. An Act to continue an Act of the last session of parliament, for al lowing a drawback of the whole of the duties of customs on brimstone used and consumed in Great Britain in the making and preparing oil of vitriol or sulphuric acid. (27 June.) XL. An Act to amend several Acts for the regulation of the linen and hempen manufactures in Scotland. (27 June.) XLI. An Act for the registering of vessels. (27 June.) XLII. An Act to amend several Acts for the assistance of trade and manufactures, and the support of commercial credit in Ireland. (27 June). XLIII. An Act to regulate the amount of presentments by grand juries, for payment of the public officers of the several counties in Ireland. (27 June.) XLIV. An Act to repeal the duties and drawbacks on Barilla imported into the United Kingdom, and to grant other duties and drawbacks in lieu thereof. (27 June.) XLV. An Act for allowing persons to compound for their assessed taxes for the remainder of the periods of composition limited by former acts; and for giving relief in certain cases therein mentioned. (4 July.) XLVI. An Act for repealing the capital punishments inflicted by several Acts of the sixth and twenty-seventh years of King George the Second, and of the third, fourth, and twenty-second years of King George the Third; and for providing other punishments in lieu thereof, and in lieu of the punishment of frame-breaking under an Act of the twenty-eighth year of the same reign. (4 July.) XLVII. An Act for authorizing the em ployment at labour, in the colonies, of male convicts under sentence of transportation. (4 July.) XLVIII. An Act for enabling courts to abstain from pronouncing sentence of death in certain capital felonies. (4 July.) XLIX. An Act for regulating turnpike roads in that part of Great Britain called Scotland. L An Act for the rebuilding of London Bridge, and for improving and making suitable approaches thereto. (4 July.) LI. An Act to encourage the consumption of beer; and to amend the laws for securing the excise duties thereon. (8 July.) LII. An Act to alter and amend the law relating to the interment of the re mains of any person found Felo de se. (8 July.) LIII. An Act for extending the benefit of clergy to several larcenies therein mentioned. (8 July.) LIV. An Act for allowing the benefit of clergy to persons convicted of certain felonies under two Acts, of the ninth year of King George the First and of the twenty-seventh year of King George the Second; for making better provision for the punishment of persons guilty of sending or delivering threatening letters, and of assaults with intent to commit robbery. (8 July.) LV. An Act to consolidate and amend the several Acts now in force, so far as the same relate to the election and return of members to serve in parlia ment, for counties of cities and counties of towns in Ireland. (8 July.) LVI. An Act for maintaining in repair the military and parliamentary roads and bridges in the Highlands of Scotland, and also certain ferry-piers and shipping-quays erected by the commissioners for Highland roads and bridges. (8 July.) LVII. An Act to defer the commencement of the duties and drawbacks on barilla, under an Act of this present. session of parliament. (9 July.) LVIII. An Act to continue, until the 1st Day of August, 1824, an Act, made in the last session of parliament for suppressing insurrections and 'preventing disturbances of the public peace in Ireland. (9 July.) LIX. An Act to defray the charge of the pay, clothing, and contingent and other expenses of the disembodied militia in Great Britain and Ireland; and to grant allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers, adjutants, quartermasters, surgeons, assistant surgeons, surgeons mates, and serjeant majors of militia, until the 25th day of March, 1824. (9 July.) LX. An Act for granting to his majesty a sum of money to be raised by lot: teries. (9 July.) LXI. An Act for the better administra tion of justice in the court of Chancery in Ireland. (10 July.) LXII. An Act to repeal the duties upon horses let to hire for the purpose of travelling in Great Britain, and to grant other duties in lieu thereof; and to provide for letting the same to farm. (10 July.) NAVIGATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM-continued. VESSELS EMPLOYED IN THE FOREIGN TRADE.-An Account of the Number of VESSELS, with the Amount of their Years ending Years ending |