LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL PUBLIC ACTS OF PARLIAMENT and to allow importation of seal skins cured with foreign salt, free of duty. For importation and exportation from the port of Falmouth in Jamaica. For prohibiting the exportation from, and per &c. without duty, till March 2, 1810. Passed in the Third Session of the Fourth Parlia-mitting the importation to, Great Britain of corn, ment of the United Kingdom of Great Briiain and Ireland.-49th Geo. III. For continuing certain duties on malt, sugar, tobacco, and snuff, in Great Britain; and on pensions, offices, and personal estates in England. For raising £10,500,000 by exchequer bills. To allow a certain proportion of militia of To permit, until March 25, 1811, importation of tobacco into Great Britain, from any place whatever. For allowing until March 25, 1810, importation of fish from North American colonies, with a bounty. For establishing courts of judicature in the island of Newfoundland and the islands adjacent; and for re-annexing part of the coast of Labrador to Newfoundland. To enable the clerks of the King's Coroner and Great Britain to enlist voluntarily into the regular Attorney in the court of King's Bench to be ad forces. The same for the militia in Ireland. For the relief of prisoners in custody for nonpayment of money pursuant to orders of courts of equity. mitted as attornies. For appropriation of £20,000 out of the consolidated fund of Ireland, to encourage the saving of flax seed for sowing in Ireland. To continue until March 25, 1810, the draw To prohibit distillation of spirits from corn for backs and bounties on exportation of sugar from a limited time. To suspend the importation of British or Irish made spirits into Great Britain or Ireland respectively, until June 1, 1809. To grant bounties on importation of flax seed into Ireland from Great Britain, until April 8, 1809; and to amend the laws for the regulation of the linen manufacture in Ireland, relating to importers of flax seed. To allow a bounty on double refined sugar exported, until March 25, 1811. For continuing, until March 25, 1810, certain bounties on exportation of sugar from Great Britain. For punishing mutiny and desertion. For preventing the forging of bank notes, bank bills of exchange, and bank post bills, and the negociation of forged and counterfeit bank notes, &c. in Ireland. For repealing an act of the parliament of Scotland, relative to child murder, and for making > other provisions. To allow importation of rum, &c. from the .island of Bermuda into the province of Lower - Canada, without payment of duty. Tu authorize his Majesty, during, the present war, to regulate trade to and from the Cape of Good Hope. For continuing until March 25, 1814, the free importation of cochineal and indigo; also, the exportation of wool from the British plantations in America, until March 25, 1819. For regulation of royal marine forces while on shore. To perpetuate several laws for encouragement of the silk manufactures; to allow importation of rape seed, &c. whenever the prices exceed a certain limit; to encourage the growth of coffee in America; and for preventing clandestine running of goods, and danger of infection thereby; Ireland. For prohibiting exportation from Ireland, and permitting importation into Ireland, duty free, oi corn, &e. till March 25, 1810. For making perpetual several duties of one shilling and sixpence, on offices and employments of profit, on annuities, pensions, and stipends. To grant an excise duty on spirits distilled from sugar in Ireland, during the prohibition of distillation from corn. To permit the registry at Malta of ships taken as prize. For more convenient payment of pensions to navy officers. For establishing public hospitals in Ireland. keepers on quartering soldiers. For encreasing the rates of subsistence to inn For rendering payments more expeditious in Scotland. For establishing a permanent local militia force. For better regulating the public records of Scot. land. For ascertaining the average price of brown or Muscovado sugar. To permit prize goods to be sold within this kingdom without paying the home consumption duty. For the compassionate list of the navy, and half pay to officers of royal marines. To authorize the principal officers of the cas toms in the British colonies and plantations in America and the West Indies, to examine wit nesses on oath. To permit certain articles, the production of Europe, to be shipped on board ships arriving with British North American produce, &c. at any port of Europe, to be exported to North Amsrica, &c, To establish a permanent local militia force in Scotland. To permit any goods to be imported into and exported from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, in any ship whatsoever, till March 25, 1812. To amend the discount on newspapers. For raising £6,000,000, by exchequer bills, for For completing the militia of Great Britain, For improving the quality of beer in Ireland, by preventing the use of unmalted corn, or of any unwholesome ingredients therein, &c. For the encouragement and relief of friendly societies in Ireland. To permit trade between Great Britain and the United States of America to be carried on in ships or vessels belonging to the inhabitants of the said states. For allowing importation from any port in Europe or Africa, of commodities the produce of any country, until six months after peace. For subjecting sugar and coffee of Martinique and Mariegalante to duty on importation, as not of the British plantations. For the prevention of smuggling; for securing duties on coals, culm, and cinders; for permitting exportation of salt, pepper, and wine from Guernsey or Jersey to Sark. For regulating the duties on the materials used in making spread window glass and crown glass. For giving jurisdiction to justices of the peace to determine prosecutions relating to the customs; also, requiring all goods customable, seized by any peace officer, to be brought to the customhouse warehouse in London. To amend laws of excise relating to paper, silks, and salt, for authorising seizure of utensils, &c. To amend several acts relating to local militia. To amend the laws in Ireland, relative to recognizances in criminal cases, &c. For amending the Irish read acts. land, &c. until March 25, 1810. To make provision for wives, &c. of ballotted men, in the militia of Ireland. For defraying the charge of the militia and local militia in Great Britain for 1809. For making allowances to subaltern officers of militia in Great Britain, while disembodied. To grant certain allowances to adjutants and serjeant-majors of militia of England, disembodied. Scotland, in actual service. To empower the judges to try in civil causes their own counties in England. in exchequer bills, funded, on the war taxes. To enable his majesty's treasury to issue exchequer bills on credit. The lottery act. For regulating the board of commissioners for auditing public accounts. For allowance of superannuation to officers of excise. For repealing duties of customs in Great Bri tain, and for granting other duties. For securing the collection of the duties on spirits distilled in Ireland. For securing collection of duties on auctions in Ireland. To regulate fees payable by persons charged To amend the act for redemption and sale of with treason, &c. in Ireland. the land tax. To explain the law of bastardy, relating to indemnifying parishes. To indemnify printers from penalties incurred under 39th Geo. III. For raising £14,600,000. For improvement of city of Dublin, by making wide and convenient passages, and for regulating the coal trade thereof. To impose duties on spirits distilled in Ireland, upon British spirits imported into Ireland, &c. For allowing drawbacks and bounties on goods imported into and exported from Ireland, until' July 5, 1810. For vesting in the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with the privy council, the power of prohibiting exportation of gunpowder, &c. For securing the duties on paper made in Ireland. For raising £1,250,000 for Ireland. For raising £500,000 for Ireland. For allowing dealers to roast their own coffee en certain conditions. To appoint commissioners to examine the na. ture and extent of the bogs in Ireland, and the practicability of draining and cultivating them. For the building of churches, chapels, and glebe houses in Ireland. For granting life annuities with benefit of sure vivorship in Ireland. To suspend the importation of British or Irish made spirits into Great Britain or Ireland respectively. To expedite the payment of wages and prize money to the navy. For allowing persons employed in any branch of the woollen manufacture to set up trade in any place in Great Britain, For appointing commissioners to enquire into the public expenditure, in the military depart ments. To raise £3,000,000 for Great Britain, For the relief of certain insolvent debtors in England, To regulate the customs and port duties, the inland excise and taxes, in Ireland. For lowering excise on coffee, the growth of Africa. For better securing the independence and purity of parliament, by preventing the procuring or obtaining of seats in parliament by corrupt prac tices. For reducing into one act the militia laws of Ireland. To alter the laws relating to bankrupts. For preventing frauds on merchants, &c. by boatmen, and for the adjustment of salvage in England, For encouragement of seamen, and for manning his Majesty's navy; and for patronising the royal hospital for seamen at Greenwich, and the royal hospital for soldiers at Chelsea. For amending acts relative to removal of the poor, &c. For the encouragement and relief of friendly societies. For prevention of the sale and brokerage of offices. Fox augmenting the salaries of certain judges in Westminster Hall, of the chief and second justice of Chester, and justices of the great sessions in Wales. For granting money out of the consolidated fund, and for appropriating the supplies granted. To prevent the enlisting of local_militia men into the regular militia of any other county than that to which they belong. The number of Public Acts is 129. Among the Local and Personal Acts we distinguish, An act for establishing and well governing the charitable institution called "The Society of Stewards and Subscribers for maintaining and educating poor Orphans of Clergymen until of Age to be put Apprentice," and for incorporating such society, and for more effectually enabling them to carry on their charitable and useful designs. For extending the royalty of the city of Edin burgh; for regulating assessment for the poor; for erecting two new churches; for discontinuing certain churches, and annexing the parishes thereof to other parishes; for regulating ministers' stipends, a for draining the meadow on the south side of the city. For making provision for such of the sub-registrars or deputy registrars of the High Court of Chancery as from age or infirmity shall be flicted with permanent disability, and be inca pacitated for the due execution of their office, &c. For repealing an act imposing a certain proportion of the county rate for the county of Kent upon the eastern division, and certain proportions upon the western division and empowering the justices of the peace to make a fair and equal county rate for the said county, &c. ર ERRATA. Page 902 (ANIMAL'S FRIEND): In Mons. Corbin's mode of procuring the honey and wax from the hives. The full hive is to be gently slid off its stand, an empty one, prepared as directed, "held underneath, and fixed to it by joining their edges, covering them with a cloth, if thought ne"cessary, for safety; and then (but not before) both of them are to be turned upside down, that "the bees may ascend and follow their queen, when the lower (full) hive is gently beaten with sticks, "as directed. The car can distinguish when all the bees have ascended, by the cessation of the "humming noise." -2 In page 1135 allusion is made to the OBSERVANDA EXTERNA, which was necessarily left out of the present volume, for want of room; our readers are therefore requested to refer to pages 147 and 148 in Volume VII. where the article will be found under the title of Statistical Account of Mexico. Burghley's (Lord) Pre- Conscription Code, 705 cepts, 333 Cadets named Brown, Caledonian Sketches, 66 Bahama Isl. Produce of, Catholics, English, 783 159 Bible Society, 149, 724 Bingley, Mr. 438 Ceremony, Ld. Mayor's, 511 Characters of 16th Cen- Biograph. Index to H. Church Burial, 242 of Lords, 238 --Memoirsy · 1221 1132 Anne's (Queen) Boun- Anniversary, Charity King's 50th Accession, 973 cal, France, 1058 Blind, Charity for the, Queen Anne's, 1265 Buchanan, 1067 Circassian Bride, 87 Citizen's Letter, 33 Specula- tions, 103 Conscripts, 577 pany, 93 Damage in Fens, 368 |